[Sir Charles]

***"Because we've always done it that way," is reactionary."***

It's only common sense if a better way is not clearly a better way.

***"Change for the sake of change," is the ideology of a cancer cell.***

If a cancer cell had the capacity to hold to an ideology, that may apply. I wouldn't compare a cancer cell to a thinking organism. Besides, I consider the change we're discussing here, a change for the sake of change, and know many women who feel the same.


***Letting one half the population know that we value them through the language we have in common, should be a no brainer.***

We have been doing that for years, until someone suddenly decided that the word "mankind" somehow excludes women, and the only proper term has to evolve to "peoplekind", etc., totally throwing out of kilter meaningful expressions that served us very well since the beginning of history.

[gcruse]

meaningful expressions that served [patriarchal society] very well since the beginning of history.

There.  That fixes it.