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womankind

noun as in distaff

noun as in distaff side

noun as in gentle sex

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As such, few commoners saw Monday’s highly publicized private jaunt to the boundary between Earth and space as some giant leap for all womankind.

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Men in prestigious publications and TV programs were empowered to offer their behavioral prescriptions for all womankind, and women were expected to apologize for their failure to please the male gaze.

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It’s a thrilling sight to see a stage full of women unleash their power for the benefit of womankind rather than a single, over-promoted man.

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The actress, he declared, was “a marvelous breathing monument to womankind.”

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Tessa finds Wah both “submissive and queenlike,” “a tangle of both deference and hostility,” and as the book opens, has informed her, three martinis in at a restaurant, that she is an “insult to womankind.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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