Justin Trudeau Facing Backlash Over Gender-Neutral Comment

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42952220

I suppose that's better than too far the other way?

I wonder whether the backlash would have been the same if he didn't interrupt and waited for her to finish.

Even the "North Koreans" have taken notice. (From one of the best Twitter satire feeds.)



https://twitter.com/DPRK_News/status/960898293923549184

Maybe he meant to say human kind and then had to scramble for the word and got people instead, I do that sort of thing all the time.

He says it was a joke.

He should have said "humankind" instead of peoplekind, it just sounds better for some reason, even if it still has the word "man" in it.

This has layers like an onion. Feminism itself is sexism, or it would be called humanism. Somehow, "equality" can only run one way for a feminist. I lived among feminists all my life, including infancy, until I realized that their attacks on Sociobiology and much else were just like those of a cult, not using reason if challenged.

I think he should have said humankind. He's going to be mocked for saying peoplekind now.

I read somewhere that humankind is an oxymoron.

pity this busy monster, manunkind,

not. Progress is a comfortable disease:
your victim (death and life safely beyond)

plays with the bigness of his littleness
--- electrons deify one razorblade
into a mountainrange; lenses extend
unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish
returns on its unself.
                    A world of made
is not a world of born --- pity poor flesh

and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this
fine specimen of hypermagical

ultraomnipotence. We doctors know

a hopeless case if --- listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go

--E. E. Cummings

Maybe peoplekind is the French Canadian way of saying humankind. Different cultures use different words to describe the same thing.

Is there a gender neutral term for nepotism since it has its origins in nephew?

There may be, but it is not germane to this discussion. Pierre Trudeau never pushed Justin into politics; he was recruited by the Liberal party for his name and his pliability. He is a pretty face, not a leader or thinker like his dad.

Its still nepotism by common parlance.

Then why are the Kennedys "dynastic?"

Well they are not formally? They have no right to inherit, its a corruption nepotism is not meant to happen. Dynasties have a legal right to inherit.