Graham Dockery
RTMon, 01 Mar 2021 21:55 UTC
© Wikipedia'Womxn' march in Seattle, 2018.
Streaming platform Twitch is so woke that it managed to enrage women, conservatives and the transgender, all in a bid to celebrate "Womxn's History Month."
UPDATE: Twitch reverts back to 'women' after tweet celebrating 'Womxn's History Month' savaged onlineMarch is Women's History Month, and Twitch wants its users to celebrate. It's putting female streamers on its front page, showcasing female musicians, and dishing out thousand-dollar grants to deserving female students and entrepreneurs. Oh, and it's also spelling "Women's History Month" as "Womxn's History Month."
Unlike women, who have been around as long as men, the word "womxn" has been around for 10 years or so, with the "x" denoting transgender, non-binary and other deviations from the standard "woman." Its predecessor, "womyn," is a word cooked up by radical feminists in the 1970s to eliminate the words "man" and "men" from their gender.
Twitch's embrace of woke twaddle was slated online, first by feminists who saw the word as "some woke attempt to erase the unique characteristics of biological females."
And then by the transgender and their defenders, who view "womxn" as offensive to those who spend their lives transitioning into "women."
"Imagine being trans and fighting your whole life to be considered a full woman and they instead change it to womxn to point out that you are still trans lmao," Scottish comedian Mark 'Count Dankula' Meechan tweeted.
The company's woke gesture was also mocked by a whole spectrum of internet commenters, many of them conservatives.
"Womxn" is one of a handful of words to be given a symbolic "x" by the woke crowd in recent years. There's also "Latinx," a misguided means of de-gendering "Latino" and "Latina" that
nobody but white liberals seems to use, and "folx," which is the word "folk" with an "x" added for the apparent heck of it.
It's also not the first time the woke have been accused of demeaning women with their terminology. Women have been alternately dubbed "vagina owners,""individuals with a cervix," and "people who menstruate" by activists, and even politicians have considered adopting terms like "birthing bodies," and "chestfeeders" to please the most radical wokists.So in the spirit of inclusivity, from us to Twitch, happy Vaginated People's Herstory Month to you too!
Comment: Update: After getting savaged online, Twitch has reverted back to 'women'.
From RT:
Streaming platform Twitch has returned to the conventional spelling for "women" after its social media post hailing "Womxn's History Month" - avoiding any "gender-binary language" - backfired and angered critics on all sides.
Though the company took to Twitter on Monday to inform users that "March is Womxn's History Month," using an alternative styling of "women" in a bid to include non-binary gender identities, it made an abrupt about-face just a few hours later, announcing that it would revert back to the standard spelling.
"While we originally wanted to use a word that acknowledges the shortcoming of gender-binary language, after hearing directly from you, including members of the LGBTQIA+ community on Twitch, we will be using the spelling 'women' moving forward," the platform said in a tweet, adding that the company is "still learning."
It isn't clear what prompted the sudden reversal, but the company's initial, now-deleted post quickly triggered backlash, including from those identifying as transgender. Some argued that few actually refer to themselves as "womxn" and that the term instead makes "most trans women feel othered" rather than included.
"No one who's a woman wants to be called a womxn just like no Latinos want to be called Latinx. White liberals know what's best for us tho," wrote trans YouTuber Blaire White, referring to another attempt to de-genderize the words "Latino" and "Latina" favored by many American progressives.
Comment: Update: After getting savaged online, Twitch has reverted back to 'women'. From RT: