Speaking of the dear darling beloved BBC…
Two men agreeing with each other that the word “women” includes trans women, how cuddly and sweet. No need to consult women of course.
Wisdom speaks
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7 responses to “Wisdom speaks”
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I wonder what word he’s talking about.
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One would think he means the word “women”, but is he so stupid that he thinks that the word “women” was invented by feminists?
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I’m guessing the word in question is “WOMXN” which splashed in big letters behind them.
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Yes I think that’s it. Why are women offended by “womxn” when they invented it (did we?) blah blah.
In watching the clip I can’t not see that nasty patch of what looks like dirt or something worse in the V of his dress. What kind of idiot goes on tv wearing a plunging neckline that highlights either dirt or a skin disease? Insert barf emoji here.
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Oh I see, yes.
I recall only “womyn” before approximately 2016 (and I thought that that was pretty dumb), and “womxn” only over the past decade or so, always in a trans / “queer” context. According to this page, “womxyn” appeared already in 1975, but the page is extremely stupid, and I don’t know how much to trust them.
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Never trust a very stupid page.
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The notion of misspelling (or re-spelling, I suppose) the words “woman/women” to remove the man/men part of the term was a thing in the 70s, but it was never a core tenet of feminism, more of an easy way to mark out a position against patriarchy, and it was only really ever a fringe thing.
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