Women's Issues"Womxn" is trending on Twitter because Twitch used the phrase "Womxn's History Month" to "include trans and nonbinary women." Both trans and non trans people hate it.

submitted by OPPRESSED_REPTILIANIntersex male | GNC | Don't call me "a gay", "twink" or "queen" from self.LGBDropTheT

See for yourself: https://twitter.com/search?q=womxn

TL;DR - Normal people hate it because it's a SJW buzzword and ridiculous sounding. TRAs hate it because "trans women are women and by using a different spelling to say you're including us is invalidating us as real women waaah"

I'm... surprised actually. Well, I'm not surprised that they're whining about not being seen as "real women", but this is the first I've seen so much TQs backlash against the random "x words". I thought that words like "womxn" "folx" "latinx" and all that crap were near universally accepted by the "woke" crowd. I wonder what changed to make them go back on it.

Also, it's really sad seeing people come so close to self awareness and recognizing what's wrong with this pandering, but only to fall back to dumb arguments like "it's bad only because it implies that trans women are invalid!!"

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[–]LilianH 21 insightful - 13 fun21 insightful - 12 fun22 insightful - 13 fun -  (6 children)

Now they are scrambling to edit the wikipedia page for "womxn" to remove anything that links the word to TRAs.

[–]reluctant_commenter 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Archive links? We should be saving this shit. Is there a way to check for this in Wikipedia edit histories?

[–]RippoffOfLoveSStraight | Overuses quotation marks 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Here's the history

[–]reluctant_commenter 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thank you. Good lord, lol. What a battlefield.

[–]NerveActive 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There is this at least https://twitter.com/Fisher_Download/status/1366773132950921218

[–]reluctant_commenter 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thank you!!

[–]ColoredTwice 10 insightful - 6 fun10 insightful - 5 fun11 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

There still screenshots of Stonewall and GLAAD using this word in their messages about transwomen.

[–][deleted] 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I love how the second tweet I see from clicking that link is just a "give trans women your money". It is just so on point for them.

And it is especially funny to see them all parroting "the term womxn was invented by evil hitler terfs!" when it is literally the inverse.

[–]OPPRESSED_REPTILIANIntersex male | GNC | Don't call me "a gay", "twink" or "queen"[S] 14 insightful - 7 fun14 insightful - 6 fun15 insightful - 7 fun -  (2 children)

Radfems were using "Womyn". But it's not the same thing. "Womyn" was coined by radfems because they were offended that women had "men" in in (lol) and later iterations became "Wombyn" post-trans explosion to emphasize sex. It's dumb, but it's not "womxn".

"Womxn" and the other things with X in are different, the X is a very TRA thing, and it's supposed to be "all gender inclusive."

Now I just need to think of a clever chromosome joke pointing out that the TRAs are using the X and the radfems the Y.

It's just another case of backpedaling pathetically. "NO WE NEVER DID THAT, THE TERFS DID THAT!" Like they sometimes say with neopronouns and stuff.

[–]PeakingPeachEaterfemale♀ | detrans🦎 | eater of peaches 🍑 6 insightful - 9 fun6 insightful - 8 fun7 insightful - 9 fun -  (1 child)

Uh...I hope these radfems know the English word "man", used to be gender neutral: THE WORD ‘MAN’ WAS ORIGINALLY GENDER NEUTRAL. I had English feminist professor many years back who tried to say "mankind" is sexist and policed how we wrote our papers and made us use "humankind" and replaced anything male related (ex. How some context uses "he" to refer to men & women was replaced by "they" or "he or she" everytime we wrote...) with a gender neutral pronoun or noun or whatever. It was ridiculous.

Then she asked who was all feminist in her class and lectured those of us who didn't identify as feminist and said "If you believe in equality, then that makes you feminist".

She was obnoxious and young professor.

[–]OPPRESSED_REPTILIANIntersex male | GNC | Don't call me "a gay", "twink" or "queen"[S] 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Oh they do, they just choose not to see things. Radfems claim to be aggressively pro-fact and pro-science except for when it goes against their predetermined beliefs. Confirmation bias, basically.

[–]ColoredTwice 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This word was created by TRA to include transwomen into word "women" and now TRA figgting against it?

They are eating themselves alive.

Interesting note thatTwitch not removed this word when GC feminists were asking to remove it, but instantly removed when transwomen asked.

And their statement: "We consulted with LGBTQIA+ community about how to call women". Seriously? Why not consulted women instead? And why it goes like "we were deciding how you women, would be called" - such a show of misogyny.

And why there were never "Mxn"? Why only word "woman" is challenged all the time?

[–]censorshipment 9 insightful - 6 fun9 insightful - 5 fun10 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

Wait what? I've always refused to use womxn because I associate it with pc liberals who want to be inclusive and call me a bigot for being exclusive.

[–]haveanicedaytoo💗💜💙 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I thought all the x words were trans uwu words?? Now they re-wrote history to blame womxn on terfs??? LOL I haven't been to the terfy sections of the internet since banmageddon but I really don't remember seeing anyone use womxn...

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Starving piranha syndrome.

[–]our_team_is_winning 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm shocked they themselves use "transwomen" and don't just insist on "women." I would imagine they'd say "trans? I didn't cross genders. I AM a woman and have always been a woman!" Seriously surprised that they accept the "trans" prefix. Maybe only because there's decades of photos of them as men not wearing their woman costumes?

How long until TWAW becomes just Women Are Women, and the propaganda posters show a lineup of mostly men?

[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think the main reason is that if they were to refer to themselves as just 'woman' or 'women', people over text would assume their women and therefore their protected status would dissipate. By announcing they're "transwomen' over text, they immediately get the permission to say whatever they want, as TW are a highly protected class (definitely more protected than women will ever be).

[–]el-sol-duerme 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Latinx is only used by 3% of the total Latino population, mostly Latinos who were born and raised in English speaking countries and do not speak Spanish. As a Hispanic person, it enrages me hearing non-Latinos refer to us with an X. Also, didn't they invent the X to make things "gender inclusive?"

[–]IridescentAnacondastrictly dickly 7 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

You mean to tell me that "x" is not a vowel in Spanish? Mind blown!

[–]usehername 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I hate seeing "women/woman" censored as if it's a dirty word. In old English, women were referred to as women and men were referred to as weremen (like werewolf). "Men" referred to a mixed group of men and women. (We should go back.) Linguistically, censoring the "men" part of women is removing their humanity.

[–]reluctant_commenter 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In old English, women were referred to as women and men were referred to as weremen (like werewolf).

Honestly, that sounds awesome. Can we go back to that?

[–]IridescentAnacondastrictly dickly 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

My husband just discovered "womxn" in an email sent out to everybody in his workplace. It was hilarious watching his reactions (I'm usually the one on a soap box). Good times.

[–]grixit 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

We have always been at war with East Txrfia!

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

One of the biggest red flags that a group is shit is policing language imo.