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[–]Minerva 21 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 0 fun22 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Oh jeez. If I'm not mistaken, the only (and I really mean only) people I see using "womxn" are all aggressively woke libfem women to "encompass" actual women, nbs, and like...femme-aligned-people, whatever that actually refers to. Maybe men who wear nail polish? That's the "womxn" I know, and to see other libfems screeching about how it's transphobic is hilarious. They really do eat their own.

Now, if people are using it like "womyn" or "wimmin", I'd be surprised, since those two are seen as notoriously "terfy" dogwhistles to a libfem. Hmm.

[–]koonay[S] 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It used to be a thing that came from radfem groups, but I guess at one point the libfem adopted it to use it to be ''inclusionary'' to TIMs. Unless I confused it with something else, my memory is not the greatest. But wimmin, womon, womyn are pretty much the same.

[–]momiji 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Womyn predates womxn and was used to get rid of "men" inside the word "women", while womxn was later created to queerify the word woman and include folx who are not female in the idea of "woman".