Carol,

the only other post in this thread you have used the word 'men' it clearly only did refer to males.
The only time I have found here you did refer to all 'men' in the other sense of the word you did use the word 'humans'.
With the repeatedly capitalised MEN in that post I still think it was hard to read it any other way.

But you are the expert on your thoughts and so, assuming that you are sincere and not trying to make a cheap point, I apologise for misreading your post.

McGrath, 'Mensch' can't be read to mean only males. However, 'Mensch' is closely related to 'Mann' (man, male) and so our language, like most others, is unfair to females. The most unfair bit, perhaps, is our word 'man' ('one' with the meaning like in 'One cannot live forever'). 'Man' in that sense is abundant in German. Modern PC German here has 'frau'. As a small compensation for unfairness, there are rare situations in the German language where you have to refer to a man as 'she'.

Wolfgang