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(This is a verbatim quote, but that would be the accurate thing to say, yeah.)
In archaic language (which Ulysses certainly is using in the game), men refers to all human beings.
'man' and 'men' started as gender neutral terms, like a shortened form of 'human'. The prefix for male humans was 'wer' and for female humans 'wif', which is where we get the words werewolf and wife.
Wait, so I'm a werman?
Yep, though I think usually people just used 'man'; the 'wer' prefix was for when gender was important, like 'husband' or 'father'.
When the Normans invaded, the English language tilted more towards explicit gender. I blame the French.