does everybody hate the term womxn? Or is it just me?

[Gone2far]

The Guardian usually provides me with a shot of instant rage, and, reliable as ever, the front page of the review (my dh's) had the words 'what a time to be a black, british, womxn writer'.
Does anyone else feel , like, a big 'fuck off' when they read that?

Not just you.

Count me in.

Does it not mean they are talking about males?

It is not even pronounceable

Hate it too.

How are you even meant to pronounce that? I've also seen "latinx" and although it's equally silly at least I can figure out how to say it. Not so with "womxn".

"Woomzen" is the best approximation I can come up with.

How do you even pronounce it? I say “wim-icks-in” in my head. Dunno what one of them is.

I'd think it was a typical Grauniad typo.

I gave up reading it regularly a long time ago. Pissed me off to the max in about 2005.

Latinx isn’t equally silly at all - a gender neutral term was quite lacking I think.

I don’t understand why we’d need a gender neutral form of woman. It’s bollocks.

It's only function is to make the word 'woman' unspeakable.

It’s ridiculous.

Not a fan of ‘womyn’ either but at least the pronunciation and logic there are easy to follow. Logic behind ‘womxn’ seems to be that putting an ‘x’ in a word makes it ‘more inclusive’. What?

I thought ‘womxn’ was introduced by the 2nd wave feminism movement as a symbolic way to remove the word ‘man’ / ‘men’ when describing females. It’s not a new invention.

Has anyone ever seen the word 'mxn' used?

I certainly haven't

Do they also use the word mxn for men?

So far we have woomzen and wim-icks-in. Add your (failed) attempts at pronunciation here!

Sorry Absinthe. You asked first.

What does it fucking MEAN?!

I hate the use of womxn.. Like the word women didn't already include everyone who should be included in the term. Argh!

At Nottingham Contemporary it was used to be inclusive of transwomen and black women.

Because apparently the very woke are also extremely racist and didn't think the word woman included black women.

They did agree to remove "womxn" from a quote by Maya Angelou after people pointed out she hadn't used that word.

When god was a womxn

Ain't I a womxn too?

Womxn who run with the wolves

I thought ‘womxn’ was introduced by the 2nd wave feminism movement as a symbolic way to remove the word ‘man’ / ‘men’ when describing females. It’s not a new invention.

Ironic and depressing, then, that it now used to literally mean men.

Removing the word “men” from women was thought of decades ago by early feminists. But they used the word “wimmin”. Pronounced exactly the same, but making the point when printed.
“Womxn” is unpronounceable and silly. And particularly to be deprecated at a time when we are threatened with erasure by trans rights activists, who can’t abide us having any words, spaces, sports or rights of our own.
We should defend our ownership of the word “women”.

Great minds Agrona!

I think it was first used by feminists, but like lots of other things it's been appropriated by the church of the latter day woke.

God yes, I hate it when women use it especially.