Yes, I've read the FAQ, but it doesn't actually say why people use the word... Just some 'justification' that's wholly laughable, and a request not to talk about it too much... Is this related to the horrific modern habit of saying "they" rather than "he" for a non-specific person? Some kind of ill-informed feminism?
For the same reason some people spell family "phamily" or kind "kynd". Because they want to. Who cares?
Still no-one explaining why some people use it... And who ever writes "phamily"? Only people who can't spell, as far as I know. Or is this another feminist thing?
Really get majorly annoyed by seeing the word 'womyn' as well.. pet peeve I guess. And I don't know about 'if someone wants to use it why not?' thingie.. I mean.. there are certain rules to a language and it's spelling so what if everyone suddenly starts making up all kinds of stuff? Ok, there is a certain internet slang.. so 'womyn' would be some kind of feminism slang. I wonder though if the people who use it know how it makes them look. Personally, if I'm discussing something I'd like to have both parties to be openminded and use the 'normal conversation rules'.. as soon as someone start using the word 'womyn' it makes there hardcore feminist nature more than obvious. It's like talking about racial issues with a person using the word '******'. You can get a lot of information just through the way people use words'n stuff. But hey.. it's a free world.. do whatever you like. But allow me to feel how I feel about it as well. I'll never dislike a person for it, but I can't help but feel more prejudice.
A lot of phish fans spell words that start with "f" with a "ph". Do you spell color or colour? Theatre or theater? Does it really matter?
My lord, why is it that every few weeks one more asshole has to come here and start another argument about it? It's a spelling of a word. Get over it. There are about 8 million other threads about it. Take a little time out of your life and search. Nobody's explaining because it's already been answered before many, many times. People get sick of saying the same thing over and over again.
Do you wonder why they strted using the word "woman"? It's a man with a womb...If you think about it genetically perhaps males should be called "dickgirls" instead.
I don't know. I guess it's to give a lady an identity that is separate from her male counterparts. Most words that are used for ladies are just words that someone glued man or men to the end. (Like woman, women, female) it's like we don't have meaning without a man. I like lady myself but I don't knock people for their usage and the usage of they rather than he is not feminism. It is primarily used by some people as a way to talk in secret about a friend, love one, or other person. (Mostly by gay men to hide the identity of a love one out of fear of rebuke from his peers. Some gay men will even use she in place of he.)
I'll be honest, I don't understand why people care enough to bother using "womyn"... I mean, it still sounds the same, so what's the big difference? But, I've been known to write "kidz" instead of "kids", just because it looks more interesting, so.... At the same time, I don't understand why anyone would care enough to get upset when people use "womyn". I mean, if you're going to get upset with the way people spell things on message boards, those teenyboppers who think it's cool "2 rite lyk dis, u no" (to write like this, you know) should be far more offensive, since reading their crap is almost as easy as reading a foreign language. If it's easily decipherable, why do you care so much?
man isnt just a gender thing. man is just short for human, im guessing. if not gramatically, logically. so woman is just a (hu)man with a womb.. i dunno, im feeling a little weird today.
Actually, the word "woman" comes from an Old English compound wif+man. "Wif" meaning woman (the same word was also used for wife). Which basically means that woman means woman-man. So, no, the word doesn't mean a man with a womb. I don't really care if people use womyn. They use it because they want to make a statement, and that's okay with me. People use words and change them to make statements all the time.
<sigh> you imply that the natural state for a 'human' is without a womb in the above sentence - whether you meant to or not... you could also say: 'so a man is just a human without a womb..' and that would be equally as wrong i think this is what 'womyn' users are trying to convey. (although they do, unfortunately, have a stigma attached -fairly or unfairly- of being millitant man haters that argue over the semantics of labels rather than the core of an issue) <- but that's a sweeping generalisation in itself!!
