This quote was written by Willard Van Orman Quine

The original quotation is in black colour

© Ilkhi, 2019

As you can see the sexism of this quotation, most male scientists and philosophers do speak of "men" and "man".

This is a passage from Elizabeth Anderson's Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2017 Edition).

Various practitioners of feminist epistemology and philosophy of science argue that dominant knowledge practices disadvantage women by (1) excluding them from inquiry, (2) denying them epistemic authority, (3) denigrating their "feminine" cognitive styles and modes of knowledge, (4) producing theories of women that represent them as inferior, deviant, or significant only in the ways they serve male interests, (5) producing theories of social phenomena that render women's activities and interests, or gendered power relations, invisible, and (6) producing knowledge (science and technology) that is not useful for people in subordinate positions, or that reinforces gender and other social hierarchies.

I think it's high time we did something about women's equality.