“Folx” Please tell me this is a joke/trolling

[rodgmum]

Someone on Emily Maitlis’ twitter thread is now talking about “folx” instead of folk as a respectful way to include all identities. Someone please tell me it was originally a typo and this tweeter is taking the piss. Please?????

If women is a terf word can we keep it to mean women?
Then the folx can use transwomxn and transmxn

Apparently, she helpfully explains, we have to spell it like that now, to be explicitly inclusive of transwomen and women of colour.

So the words "woman" doesn't include women of colour? How is that anything other than massively racist?

And what the actual fuck is wrong with just saying "people" if you mean people?!

Why would the spelling woman not include women of colour?

What's the thinking there? Genuinely puzzled.

It’s a load of bolx

It’s a load of bolx

It’s a load of bolx

Repeat until you stick your head in the FWR bucket of gin

See also "Mx" and "latinx".

I assume "folx" is appropriation of language from those having low socio-economic status but with the twist of the magic gender neutral "x".

" be explicitly inclusive of transwomen and women of colour."

and it is never enough simply to include, wokery is all about explicitly including, making it loud and clear that you care about these issues more than anyone else.

and it is never enough simply to include, wokery is all about explicitly including, making it loud and clear that you care about these issues more than anyone else

Yes, and so making it all about you.

Can I ask why some of you seem to be so anti the use of folk? It seems quite strange, it’s not like that’s a new word!

I don't know how 'folk/folks' in the UK but in the South (mostly eastern IIRC) United States it means 'family/parents'.

Here it is seen as an 'older' southern word. For example, my father has always called his parents 'my folks' my grandmother and grandfather also referred to their parents in the same way even though they were from different states and of different cultural/ethnic heritage (Oklahoma & Kentucky). In talking about family in general it is common to call them 'my folk' - have heard it used for 40yrs and was used long before I was ever around.

I hate how terms like this which are considered informal terms of endearment have been repurposed for the Wokerati now inducing cringe by those of us that are used to hearing these words.

Folx is fucking stupid just like womxn is stupid. Do these people have nothing better to do with their time than attempt to police language for everyone else? I thought 'Boomers' were a scourge FFS, leave my 'Boomer' parents' words alone.

THIS FOLX/WOMXN SHIT IS ALL SO FUCKING RACIST!!!!!!! WTF?!?!? 🤪

She seems to be saying that it's "womxn" that's a 'TERF' term - it really isn't - when you google it's as we're saying here, it's the one that explicitly includes them (which does sound a little transphobic when you think about it).

older school feminists I've seen use womyn more - perhaps the second person in the facebook comment is seeing it as 'womyn' ie feminist spelling, but even more feminist because it's an x, not a y? Rather than the folx style x or the latinx style x (I hate latinx - it makes no sense. It's riding roughshod over someone else's language.. a bit like self-chosen pronouns now I think of it)

These people are self obsessed bores and the least inclusive of any group on the planet with the possible exception of ISIS (and I'm not even sure about them).

There is nothing 'inclusive' about mangling the English language, or harranging people who use different regional dialects to yourself, or excluding the millions of people with low literacy skills, learning disabilities, or for whom English isn't a first language.

They are utterly selfish numpties but at least it is easy to spot who the spoiled, selfish twats are, they're the ones adding the letter 'x' randomly to words it has no place in. Easily spotted is easily avoided.

Apparently, she helpfully explains, we have to spell it like that now, to be explicitly inclusive of transwomen and women of colour.

But why? I don't see the reasoning (though I might be on a hiding to nothing with that).

I don't know how 'folk/folks' in the UK but in the South (mostly eastern IIRC) United States it means 'family/parents'.

I'm in the UK and it means parents, too. As in "I'm going to see the folks for Christmas".

The only other time I heard it was in school plays - I always gave my all as part of the 'rebellious town folk'.

Sadly this is not the first time I've seen "folx". It seems to be part of a wokeness pissing contest where they're all seeing how many words they can add an "x" to.

"folx" is a signalling device. It's used to signal to the in-group and as such works to exclude the out-group.

Well, I don't want to be part of that ingroup so it's helpful of them to give me such an easy way to signal non-compliance. Or would be if I ever used the word "folks".

So the words "woman" doesn't include women of colour? How is that anything other than massively racist?

Yes, it's massively racist, but that's 'woke folx' for you.

For the record, none of the black or Asian women I know in the real world like 'women of colour' either, or BAME for that matter. But they're old like me (ie over 40) so probably don't count.

Womxn at least could be read as women in a text, But Folx I’d have no idea what someone was on about. I would bet it being an odd persons name not a version of folk.

I happily used "folks" for years to refer to my parents. What I didn't do though is confuse myself about their sexes and start to wonder what their inner gender identities might be.

If I didn't already know that it's just people being wanky I think I'd probably read it as someone having meant to write "fox" and typo-d.

folx and ow?

Everyone here in Canada uses folks now, partly because it's "folksy" but also seemingly to be "inclusive". It's like we've forgotten there's already a perfectly good inclusive word to describe everyone- people. (Though perhaps that doesn't include the trans specied?)

Folx is just a new level of stupid on top of stupid.