Let me be perfectly clear.  I KNOW where the words come from.  This is a statement of faith [I've taught this over the decades along with the HISTORY behind the need and development of the Creed].  But the words of faith are not a magic incantation.  There is NOTHING being changed if I don't verbally say MEN "Who for us MEN"] when reciting the Creed.  The beliefs contained in the creed are not changed one IOTA by my not saying the word MEN.  

God is not a HE---God is androgynous and possesses equally feminine characteristics as God does masculine ones.  Women are not going away and we're not going to stop insisting that we not be called MEN.  You wouldn't want to be referred to as a woman or in group, WOMEN.  The word "humanity" would fit well and would not change any belief.

Canon law is just that, laws.  It is not the Word of God.  Canon law [its first compilation] was promulgated in 1917.  It needed to be updated in 1984---and shows much need to be updated again.