Womxn controversy on Newsnight

[WTFisawomxn]

Watching BBC 2 right now.
Looks like it will come up later in the programme.

Interesting. Just saw that on another thread. The BBC had an article online about it too. What’s with all of the coverage so suddenly..?

They follow the win. Tide is turning.

I dunno... it could be damage control from the same group of people who wanted the word to be spelled womxn in the first place. It's a bit weird that it popped up at the Wellcome and Nottingham Contemporary at the same time, and right after the billboard controversy, isn't it?

Let's see what happens. What did the BBC article say?

Here’s the BBC article

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-45810709

(Side note: I cannot believe that in the West, we are having to argue about the basic existence of women as the female sex, when there are people dying in India because they are climbing into sewers doing "manual scavenging" and everyone is denying responsibility....)

On now!

They have writer/broadcaster Sophie Cook.

Sophie Cook. So not an actual woman then? FFS

They're angry about women with a y: womyn
Saying it excludes women of colour and transwomen.

The word woman is elitist????

Not watching, but seriously? This is nothing in the scheme of things.

Sophie is, as we know, trans. It seems to come off as two biological males arguing about women. And they're confused about why women are offended.

Ha ha ha ha ha the interviewer is tripping himself up with all his 'defined by'!

Now they're on about non-binary.

I bloody knew I shouldn’t have watched this. 2 MEN discussing what words women are allowed to use to describe themselves...?

2 guys talking about women it seems

So no females were available to comment?
Is this a joke?

Sophie: We need to look at these things with kind eyes. [translation: see I'm such a good woman]

Oh I give up. Sophie: there are people who are so quick to be offended about something.

Seriously??? Without a hint of irony?

They want to "lower the temperature," and Sophie says we need to "look at things with kind eyes."

Sophie says people are so quick to judge and be offended.

Kind eyes ffs

Where’s the fucking balance BBC??

Wheres the bloody WOMEN??

Why no women on this wtaf

Yup. Another one for the bias thread, then.