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'Womxn' row as companies worry the word 'women' excludes transgender people
UK Telegraph ^ | October 10, 2018 | Helena Horton

Posted on 10/11/2018 11:43:18 AM PDT by C19fan

Companies have come under fire for using the word “womxn” instead of “woman,” after worrying the latter word excludes transgender people.

Feminists have argued that it is biological women who are being excluded by the newly popular word, and that no one calls men “mxn.”

The Wellcome Collection apologised on Wednesday after being criticised for using the word to describe women and non-gender-conforming people in promotional material for its new exhibition “daylighting”, a piece of artwork that “explores the presence of womxn through their art, thinking and speculations”.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: feminism; lgbt
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Luv the Feminist vs. Trans war on the Left.
1 posted on 10/11/2018 11:43:18 AM PDT by C19fan
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With so many important problems in the world to worry about...


2 posted on 10/11/2018 11:44:44 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: C19fan

The Deranged against the Insane.


3 posted on 10/11/2018 11:45:27 AM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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4 posted on 10/11/2018 11:46:05 AM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity (Capitalists sign their checks on the front. Socialists sign theirs on the back.)
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To: C19fan

“Freaks” is easier to spell.


5 posted on 10/11/2018 11:46:51 AM PDT by gubamyster
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To: Jamestown1630

Don’t you wish you had that kind of free time?

Except if I had that time I wouldn’t use it for stupid $#!^ like that.


6 posted on 10/11/2018 11:47:39 AM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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“Womxn” make up a ridiculously low number, whereas, “women” are the vast majority.

So, who is really being “excluded” in this special carve-out for trannies”?

Minorities don’t want “equal rights”, they want “special rights”, to the exclusion of all others.


7 posted on 10/11/2018 11:48:27 AM PDT by FrankR (You gotta stand for something, or you'll fall for anything!)
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Marketing to the one tenth of one percent?


8 posted on 10/11/2018 11:49:39 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: Quality_Not_Quantity

LOLOLOLOL!!!

Love that!


9 posted on 10/11/2018 11:50:15 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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[ “Freaks” is easier to spell. ]

Nothing against Freaks having the right to be a Freak, but Freaks should never dictate the norm... ever!

It is like picking the one goofball student in class and setting the grading standard for everyone else based off the ONE goofball. And if they are really good in English but suck at math, well sucks if you are good at math.


10 posted on 10/11/2018 11:51:56 AM PDT by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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Hahahahahahahaha!!!!!!


11 posted on 10/11/2018 11:52:02 AM PDT by samtheman (On to victory in November)
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Women. Womyn. Womxn. Wxmxn.

These people should go to Ethopia, where the main thing on the minds of the people is how they will get their next meal.

These people have been spoiled by all the benefits they enjoy in this country, and have nothing more important on their “minds” than the letters used when writing words.

This is a definite sign that they are not in contact with reality, and can be declared insane.


12 posted on 10/11/2018 11:52:41 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Cynicism is the only refuge in a world that is determined to eliminate itself.)
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Just how are we supposed to pronounce those new words? Is X a vowel now?


13 posted on 10/11/2018 11:52:48 AM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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Enough already. Just use symbols, then.
14 posted on 10/11/2018 12:00:27 PM PDT by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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Can the world sit down and finally decide for what % of the population we change all society’s norms?

For example, at least 10% of the population needs mobility help, from walkers to strollers to wheelchairs. I am ok with taxpayers making streetlights and sidewalks/curbs more accessible for all of them. It doesn’t affect the rest of us enough.

But if only 1% are transgenders and we have to change our language in very basic ways, how is that fair?


15 posted on 10/11/2018 12:12:28 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: BBQToadRibs

It’s my new tagline.


16 posted on 10/11/2018 12:20:03 PM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity (If I had a dollar for every gender, I'd have two dollars. And a bunch of counterfeit ones.)
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To: gubamyster

You could just use the abbreviation Frk. Can’t be easier than that.


17 posted on 10/11/2018 12:21:38 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: C19fan

Note to self: Never invite a gender-confused liberal to play Scrabble.


18 posted on 10/11/2018 12:39:03 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.`)
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If I had a piece of bread for every gender there is, I’d have enough to make one sandwich.


19 posted on 10/11/2018 12:45:17 PM PDT by An American in Turkiye
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Let's just start calling ourselves biped humanoids. I guess there would be some who would object to that as well (e.g. discriminates against squirrels who identify as humanoid, discriminates against humanoids who like to brachiate, or walk on all fours..).
20 posted on 10/11/2018 12:51:49 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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