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Michelle Obama uses Wonxn

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BuckingFore · 17/05/2022 10:10

Oh so sad.

Has great respect for her, have always thought she's never put a foot wrong.

https://gazette.com/news/us-world/michelle-obama-overturning-roe-will-destroy-healthcare-for-womxn/article_8242b49c-88b8-5f7f-9014-0db398241dec.html

Michelle Obama uses Wonxn
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Lottapianos · 17/05/2022 12:40

'Michelle O didn't write the headline though, so don't worry.'

I would be amazed if she's not fully TWAW though

Brefugee · 17/05/2022 12:39

Wimmin was used a lot in the 70s, so much so that Private Eye had (still has?) a column using it in the title.

Michelle O didn't write the headline though, so don't worry.

Artichokeleaves · 17/05/2022 12:39

Yup. Service unit thingy with access/service points.

TastefulRainbowUnicorn · 17/05/2022 12:30

I wasn't even sure if that was a typo in your title!

Womxn is so last year, Michelle, and apparently TERFs invented the word anyway. It's "bodies with uteruses" now, keep up.

BananaShrimp · 17/05/2022 12:30

I always thought “womxn” was used as a more inclusive alternative to “women” and it includes trans women etc.

Artichokeleaves · 17/05/2022 12:26

I suppose its marginally better than the totally dehumanised 'thing with x reproductive/access/service providing points' like 'bleeders' and 'thing with uterus' (since the bloke informed us all that people meant specifically 'men', as if we didn't already know)

If we're using womxn (is a pronunciation guide being included in this?) to mean 'random group of mixed sex people who wish to be known by that term' then fine, so long as I can use 'woman' as 'biological female who wishes to be known by that term'.

DaisyQuakeJohnson · 17/05/2022 10:20

She used 'women' in her post. The 'womxn' spelling is in the graphic that was shared from elsewhere.

There are gc feminists who use womxn and womyn. They've been used since the 1970s - it's about erasing the 'men' part of women. And women having a word that doesn't reference men.

In most places its use predates any of the TRA/MRA bullshit.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 17/05/2022 10:15

Didn't she get the TRA memo about it?