On February 15th 2018 Rita Panahi published an opinionated newspaper article for the Herald Sun all about gender based and gender-neutral words. People kind is the last word in stupidity is written to show us how “ridiculous” and “unacceptable” the word mankind is and how people kind is more “inclusive”. This article started out as mocking and sarcastic but ended as a more serious and attacking tone. This is aimed at young and middle-aged adults, because of the references to Kim Kardashian and Zoolander as some older people wouldn’t understand it.
In the beginning, she appeals to your head using a humorous but strong simile to show how “nonsensical” Justin Trudeau, the Canadian Prime minister, and his “appalling judgement” he has when it comes down to using gender-based words, for example he cut a woman off on twitter when she
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Her use of unsaid but seemingly true facts to corrupt and mock Trudeau like; “after world-wide mockery Trudeau claims that he was only joking but no one sensible or familiar with his track record would buy that excuse”. She is so superstitious about Justin’s beliefs that she is willing to go as far to corrupt his credibility and image as a political leader. Panahi hates every reason and logical explanation behind what Trudeau is “mansplaining” to the public about being more inclusive with our language. “When Neil Armstrong muttered the famous line, ‘that’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind’ I didn’t think he was excluding me” I don’t think anyone did because ‘mankind’ is already such a gender-neutral word because it refers to all people not just the