[Ads-l] More on "womxn" from BBC news

Mark Mandel mark.a.mandel at GMAIL.COM
Fri Oct 12 03:40:35 UTC 2018


Bullseye, Wilson!

Mark

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018, 1:13 AM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Like women, womxn refers to females, but it is an attempt to get away
> from  patriarchal language.
>
> Clearly, it ought to eliminate sexism as easily as _African American_
> has eliminated racism. Can you dig it?
>
> --
> -Wilson
> -----
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
> to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
>
>
>

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