today in Are The Terrans Okay: sexism, linguistics
At least in Polish, it's not "men" but "masculine sapient[^] entities". The "personal masculine nouns" part makes this extremely weird, because e.g. grammatical gender of "human" is male (so if you talk about a group of humans, you always use masculine-personal gender), but grammatical gender of "kid" is neutral (so if you refer to a group of kids, you always use the non-masc-personal gender, regardless of the group's composition).
Aside: Nouns that match some pattern decline differently based on this distinction (e.g. if you think of elves as sapient you'd call them "elfowie" and "elfy" otherwise), which I find to be somewhat endearing (modulo the gender asymmetry), because it embeds some nontrivial information about the speaker's opinions about the world into their speech.
[^] for some value of; it's terribly underspecified and it changed over time (IIUC it used to include at least some animals: "ptakowie niebiescy" was an actually used expression)