The word Folx

[MillicentTrilbyHiggins]

Can someone please explain to me why this is replacing the work folk?

My social media is full of it, but whenever I ask anyone all they can say is that it's "gender neutral" without explain how/why. One person even blocked me for asking why 'folx' is gender neutral, but 'folk' isn't.

No. I do want to understand. That's why I asked.

If no one can give me an answer beyond "it's gender neutral" or "if your not queer you don't need to know" then I can only assume its a load of crap.

Well quite. Technically I'm part of the queer community. As are both my teens. We all hate the word queer though, none of us identify as queer. And none of us understand why folx is more inclusive/more gender neutral than the already gender neutral word 'folk'.

Mind you, I don't use the word folk either but was told recently that it's more inclusive than the word people

Here’s What to Know About the Often Misunderstood Term Folx

Every time anyone says “folk” I just hear some kind of Dukes-of-Hazzard style country redneck in denim dungarees and a beard, chewing an ear of corn and drawling about “y’all” 🤣 Can’t take it seriously at all.

Too much American television and novels as a child, maybe.

Well, that article is a loaf of old cobblers, written by someone with no idea of feminist and gay history. “Mx” (and its counterparts, “womxn” and “womyn”), were never originally used as “queer” terms, but were invented much earlier by the kind of second wave feminists that people who write books about “trans sex and queer embodiments” really don’t like. But this fact has obviously been airbrushed out of the new “queer history” 😂

Thanks @discobrain that was interesting.

Except, also kind of made up. Which is a bit of a problem.

I guess this is the problem
It seems no one actually knows the answer so can only make up their version. The article was interesting. But (as you pointed out) the stuff about the word womxn/womyn was wrong.

I was always led to believe the words womxn and womyn were used to remove men/man by feminists. Nothing to do with queer people.
I always thought that was a load of nonsense too tbh.

I finished reading the article, and at the end the writer was pretty even-handed about it, which I thought fair enough!

Nowt so queer as folx?