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twitch and 'womnx'

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missproportionate · 02/03/2021 13:28

I'm so confused about all the circularity of this my mind is boggling.

I do not like the word Womnx. I like the word 'woman'.

Seems the trans community doesn't like it either and they have branded twitch transphobic.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56251452

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ErrolTheDragon · 04/03/2021 10:51

[quote OvaHere]twitter.com/ripx4nutmeg/status/1367228032897933312[/quote]
That's hilarious.
I rather suspect PN etc took to using 'womxn' more after they realised feminists rejected it, and then got uncomfortably hoist by their own petard.

newyearnewname123 · 04/03/2021 07:41

How are you going to respect people's pronouns if you don't respect their nouns?'

I love this. I think the push to get people to respect pronouns is a huge problem. Even here I regularly see women calling men "she" because that's the rule. We need to push back against this because men are not female so the she pronoun is not appropriate.

Doyoumind · 04/03/2021 07:24

I saw that on ripx4nutmeg's twitter last night Ova. Typical PN. Does anyone take them seriously?

BoeotianNightmare · 04/03/2021 06:28

And the only term left available for someone who wants to assert that women are a sex class oppressed on account of their sex will be 'transphobe'.

Gosh that really hit home for me. I hope that's not where we end up but it rings horribly true. Sad

PotholeParadies · 04/03/2021 01:35

If they'd just thought about their value system logically in the first place, they wouldn't have this problem. There were transwomen saying they found it exclusionary and counter to TWAW to be called a womxn and tbh, they were right- it is contradictory.

But no. For their style guide they were with the loudest voices who were concerned merely with sticking it to the t**fs. Now the fashion has changed and they've been left desperately clambering to catch up.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 04/03/2021 00:31

Wx hxvx xlwxys bxxn xt wxr wxth Xxstxsxx

PotholeParadies · 04/03/2021 00:05

It has been alleged that a supposed news site has spent this evening doing find and replace of "womxn" in past headlines.

SetYourselfOnFire · 04/03/2021 00:00

It's pure revisionist history. We already have the word woman or female. Trans allies invented 'womxn' to be inclusive of transwomen, enbies, and other gender identifies. (Oh apparently black women because they're racists.) Women complained about them literally erasing the word "woman" with the X out and were called transphobic. (There were even radfem cartoons about this.) Now everyone is repeating we invented it.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 03/03/2021 23:39

The thing about fake news, is that it doesn't matter if some see through it, as long as a critical mass of gullible suckers believe it.

Manderleyagain · 03/03/2021 23:15

Thread from 2 years ago when tra's were pushing womxn.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3390975-Womxn-controversy-on-Newsnight

NiceGerbil · 03/03/2021 22:52

One of those tweets is

'How are you going to respect people's pronouns if you don't respect their nouns?'

😂🤣🤣

RufustheSniggeringReindeer · 03/03/2021 16:24

I have to own up- you were thinking of the same person!

Not trying to hide - just trying to avoid announcing "I'm back

PotholeParadies · 03/03/2021 15:31

I don't know if this is hypocritical given points of view I have expressed about cancel culture in the past, but I absolutely think Damien Barr should be ruddy cancelled!

Every time I remember the screenshot, I am appalled all over again. I genuinely cannot imagine ever, ever, ever, ever saying something like that. It's repulsive.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 03/03/2021 15:25

I have to own up- you were thinking of the same person!

Thank you for being so gracious!

ErrolTheDragon · 03/03/2021 15:05

Grin some people are unmistakable, I'm glad to say.

MissBarbary · 03/03/2021 14:54

@Ereshkigalangcleg

Sorry, not Lass, I was thinking of someone else! MissBarbary.
I have to own up- you were thinking of the same person!

Not trying to hide - just trying to avoid announcing "I'm back.

Thelnebriati · 03/03/2021 12:54

''The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.''

WagnersFourthSymphony · 03/03/2021 11:54

You do realise, don't you, that the term 'trans woman' is transphobic? Acknowledging that someone has a trans identity is othering.
Allegedly. We have even seen penis havers insist they are 'cis women'. So the terms 'natal', 'afab' etc become hateful if they are used to distinguish one type of woman from another. Because why would anyone want to do that?
twitter.com/ariana_erbon/status/1212427311083130880

And the only term left available for someone who wants to assert that women are a sex class oppressed on account of their sex will be 'transphobe'.

O brave new world, that has such people in 't!

ErrolTheDragon · 03/03/2021 11:43

So in the last few days we've found that 'mother' is fine, and most people don't like 'womxn' for various reasons.

Jolly good.

BarbaraofKent · 03/03/2021 11:39

This is really kind of fascinating to watch play out!

I mean, we have always known that nasty women are to blame for like everything, but it's so interesting to watch this kind of gaslighting DARVO happen in real time!

RufustheSniggeringReindeer · 03/03/2021 11:20

Wonder when she’ll get to the ‘fuck off I’ll identify however i damn well please’ stage

NotTerfNorCis · 03/03/2021 11:16

Oh dear that 'Barely a spec' woman is intent on attacking GC feminists but is still determined to hang onto her identity as a 'womxn' that she's had for thirty years - only to discover that TRAs don't give a cr*p about her identity! Hope she'll wake up and realise she's been attacking the people on her own side.

AbsintheFriends · 03/03/2021 11:16

The roasting of the heretic womxn is continuing on twitter. If you click on 'replies' you can see it unfold. In spite of her laying out all her woke credentials for approval and appeasement and chucking the word 't**f' around to show her allegiance she's been told off for 'cis-splaining' and that she's part of the problem. 'Be kind' only ever works one way, doesn't it?

Presumably there would have been women who were paying for childcare to sit through that two hour wokesplain of 'folx'.