Feminists Are Offending Themselves Over The Word "Womxn"
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🗓️ 29 November 2018
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Feminists Are Offending Themselves Over The Word "Womxn." Various groups have decided that the word is more inclusive and should be adopted yet many people within Feminism feel that 'woman' is sufficient to include all women anyway and its resulting in an untenable backlash. H&M was criticized and a museum apologized over using the word but now people are claiming it isn't offensive so what do you do? If you try to support social justice eventually you'll be criticized for being problematic and "womxn" shows us that no matter what you do there is no appeasing the social justice crowd because there are no rules.
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| 0:00.0 | A couple days ago, a story was published about two student groups in London who have decided to use the word |
| 0:05.4 | Wimixen instead of the word women. Basically, it's the word woman, but instead of an A, you replace it with an X. |
| 0:11.9 | So it's W-O-M-X-N. They say they're doing this because the word Wimixen is inclusive of trans women and women of color. |
| 0:19.4 | However, many other women, just a few weeks ago, said this word was exclusive, and it was sexist and racist, |
| 0:26.7 | and they actually threatened to boycott H&M for using the word. |
| 0:30.8 | If the word is both simultaneously considered offensive and not offensive, when and how do you use it? |
| 0:36.4 | The reality is there are no rules. |
| 0:38.9 | And I think this is a good example of the left being offended and outraged on purpose for no reason than to target people they don't like when they feel like they should target them. |
| 0:48.6 | There are a few other stories I want to look at today that kind of lend itself to the story, to the idea, that people on the left are being offended on purpose. |
| 0:57.0 | And there's not to say that people on the right don't get offended on purpose too. |
| 0:59.6 | We just have many more examples apparently on the left of situations where no matter what you do, you will infringe on someone's rights for some reason, and you will be a bigot. |
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| 1:22.2 | First, from the evening standard, London Student Groups at Goldsmiths and King's College switch from using women to Wimicson in communications. |
| 1:30.6 | King's College London's Wimicson in Physics Society is one organization using the term in its moniker, while Goldsmiths Students Union has also adopted the new spelling when referring to sports teams. |
| 1:40.7 | The latter, in a Facebook post, promoting sports at the institution on November 20th said, |
| 1:45.0 | Why not give our Wimicsons Basketball Sessions or Edidas Wimicsons Fun Run a go later today? |
| 1:50.6 | There have also been events such as Wimicsons Yoga promoted. |
| 1:53.4 | Now I'm saying the word Wimicson because there isn't really a way to pronounce this word. |
| 1:57.8 | Some people have said it's Wimics, but that doesn't make sense based on how it's spelled, so I'm just going to try and say it phonetically to the best of my ability, which would be Wimicson. |
| 2:05.9 | A spokeswoman for the Goldsmiths Union speaking to the Daily Mail said, |
| 2:09.4 | Wimicson is used to demonstrate our commitment to inclusiveness no student has complained about its use. |
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