Fxck off
Oh no, even as the Wellcome Trust takes it back, it’s spreading. It’s Invasion of the Word-snatchers.
I have just received a press release that says “womxn” 15 times.
It’s about a campaign “for womxn, by womxn” to help refugees, sex trafficking victims + “pregnant womxn”.
It’s sponsored by H&M. @hmChrist almxghty.
Did you agree to this nonsense @MaternityAction ??@ellashome pic.twitter.com/et5a1LGmqX
— Lucy Bannerman (@TimesLucy) October 10, 2018
Twice in the headline. Four times in the first paragraph. Three times in the second paragraph.
No. No. No. NO. We are not “cis” and we are not “womxn.”
OK. Received and understood. But how about ‘womyn’…? It had a run in the 1970s as I recall. And it’s one of those words that is both plural and singular. Point in its favour, surely.
;-)
If I remember correctly from my time in Northampton in the 80s, the singular of womyn was/is womon.
Womyn was stupid… Womxn is straight up malicious (and still stupid).
“People of colour” were excluded from “women” but are included in “womxn”?
Non-binary people are included in womxn? I thought they don’t want to be included in anything like that. That’s sort of the point, right?
Have we reached peak silliness yet?
I suspect we have a long way to go before we hit peak (or is that nadir?). Silly silliness is bound to get sillier.
I read something today about a charity that aims to help women who suffer from anxiety about having cervical smears. Sounds great to me.
Except it’s not a charity that aims to help women who suffer from anxiety about having cervical smears at all, is it? Of course it isn’t. It’s a charity that aims to help women and trans men who suffer from anxiety about having cervical smears.
I know we’ve seen this just-plain-crazy horribleness before but it’s suddenly mainstream.
I doubt there are many trans men demanding prostate exams. They seem less likely to take up resources better spent on people with prostates than trans women are to take up resources better spent on those with a cervix.
I prefer the term “acme silliness”.
Sorry – should have read “and trans women”, of course.
Dare I ask your opinion of ‘afab women’?* I noticed it a couple of times in one of the twitter threads linked to in one of the ‘100 Ways..’ posts, probably by women who didn’t want to use ‘cis’ to differentiate from ‘trans’. Personally, I think ‘women’ does the job perfectly well, and adding a prefix – any prefix – is unnecessary and just playing into the hands of the wannabes and their allies.
* just kidding. I claim no psychic powers but I’m certain you’d happily include it in the quoted part.
Latsot @#6:
A prostate could very well pass for a cervix. In the dusk with the light behind it.
(Apologies to Gilbert & Sullivan.)
Omar @10, then again, I’ve never heard of a woman getting aroused at having what amounts to a bottle brush scraped across her cervix. Whereas some men I know report having the prostate appropriately prodded is.
Also, it would have to be more than bad lighting to mistake a prostate and a cervix…
Some years ago, when I was in my prime, I started having episodic bouts of agonising lower abdominal pain. I was referred by my GP to a leading Sydney urologist who gave me the most excruciating medical examination of my life to date, involving his compressing my prostate digitally in order to secure a semen sample for microscopic examination on the spot. At the end of it he pronouced his diagnosis: “proctalgia fugax. Translated out of the Latin, that means ‘a pain in the arse’. We don’t know what causes it, and we don’t know how to cure it. But we do have a name for it. Proctalgia fugax. Most definitely. And that will be $80.00 [at that time, about one week’s wage to me]. Please pay at reception on your way out.”
As a female colleague remarked on hearing this story, which believe me, lost nothing in the telling: “there are nicer ways than that.”
Which left me regretting that she had never become a urologist.
I did say appropriately…
That’s strange. I thought trans women would be more concerned about the ‘womb’ part and not the ‘man’ part.
Or is that so last year?