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[–]OPPRESSED_REPTILIANIntersex male | GNC | Don't call me "a gay", "twink" or "queen" 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Someone once explained to me that it's because "X can be used as a variable", but I'm pretty sure that's not the origin.

I believe it originated with "neopronouns" like "xe/xir" which pretty much exist solely to be as weird and different as possible. It's confusing to read and pronounce, and doesn't look like it belongs with he/she at all, but that's the point. Also see words like "womxn" - something I've seen used by both TRAs and radical feminists - because the "man" in "woman" is apparently sexist and needs to be swapped out. TRAs use womxn because the X is supposed to be "inclusive", radfems use it because they don't want "man" in the world (but they'll also use womyn, womon, wombyn and so forth)

tl;dr yes. It's because it's one of the least used and most "weird" sounding.

[–]Three_oneFourWanted for thought crimes in countless ideologies 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Except it isn't really weird sounding at all, just has absolutely no consistency or sound of its own. It usually sounds like ks, but sometimes can be z. Ironically enough, just as in math, x in English is just a variable for a different letter or combination of letters