Dr. Mae Jemison, a former National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronaut, derailed an interview with CBS host Vladimir Duthiers on Monday after he used the word “mankind.”
Duthiers asked Jemison to explain why Blue Origin’s eleventh space tourism launch, which carried several celebrities, benefited “mankind,” which prompted the former astronaut to demand that he say “humankind” instead. Duthiers could be heard apologizing during the interview for using a commonly used term and corrected himself to say “humankind.”
“Explain to our audience why even a trip like this one, [why] all the trips we take into space benefit mankind?” Duthiers said.
“Uh, so it benefits humankind and I’m gonna keep correcting the ‘mankind’ and the ‘manmade’ and the ‘man-missions’ because this is exactly what this mission is about is expanding the perspective of who does space,” Jemison said.
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The automated mission carried eight women, including “CBS Mornings” co-anchor Gayle King, media personality Lauren Sanchez, and pop singer Katy Perry, to outer space Monday morning and returned them safely to Earth minutes later. The mission was the first-ever to carry an all-female crew to space.
The left has prioritized cracking down on gendered language and has shamed people for using inoffensive words, such as mankind, that have been used for decades. Back in 2018, former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau scolded a woman at a town hall for saying “mankind” instead of “person-kind.”
“So, that’s why we came here today to ask you, to also look into the policies that religious charitable organizations have in our legislation so that it can also be changed because maternal love is the love that’s going to change the future of mankind,” said the woman.
“We like to say ‘people-kind,’ not necessarily ‘mankind,’” Trudeau quickly interjected.
Generally, the terms “man” and “mankind” can be used to describe all human beings, typically “in the sense of social or conscious beings,” according to the Cambridge Dictionary. Merriam-Webster defines “mankind” as a term to refer to “the totality of human beings” without any specification of a person’s biological sex.
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