I remember hearing about a radical gay activist of some sort who changed his name to Luke Sissyfag.
Later, he changed his name away from Luke Sissyfag and turned into some kind of arch conservative. sigh Boy has issues.
were you wearing your cute little “French Manservant” outfit at the time?? I’m sure that would have helped.
Anyone who believes that social ills can be fixed by changing the spelling of “women” to “womyn” is beyond help.
Real person! Real name! http://www.dykewomon.org/
Wow, thanks for the link, dropzone. Certainly not how I pictured Elana Dykewomon looking. For one thing, she’s smiling.
As for the women in the OP, all I can say is, if you’re going to let everyone know exactly where your buttons are, don’t be surprised when someone tries pushing them.
Hey! Who just spent four days on her hands and knees, using power tools and everything, laying a floor in the downstairs of her house?
I’m a feminist AND I like doing carpentry work. Some of us had fathers who taught us how to use tools!
Q: How many militant feminist womyn does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: One. And its not funny you pathetic mysogynous bastard!
I know its an old joke but…
I think Phlosphr’s comment was fine. It may indeed have been insulting, as Ferret Herder, says, but I don’t necessarially see anything wrong with that.
If you think someone is being rediculous (as I think Phlosphr does in this case), there’s nothing wrong with letting someone know you think so. No, it’s not the nicest, fluffiest thing he could have done, but there’s no reason to feign respect for something one thinks is at the best silly and fanciful.
Ah, the ‘womyn’ crowd. Christ, I want a new political movement that will take as a plank common sense. That kind of thing always makes me feel that a blue-collar feminist like myself has abolutely no place in the woman’s movement.
If you want real scary, go the Ms. bulletin board. Nothing can describe the crap that goes on there.
So if women are supposed to be included in ALL medical research studies now, do you wonder if their presence will skew the results of prostate and/or testicular cancer research?
no thanks, we’ve already had one invasion from those idiots, and that was enough.
Speaking as another liberal feminist, I have crafted several feminist web pages and essays in all of which I use the spellings woman and women.
I keep wonderyn whatever happened to the feminist spelling “wimmin.” It obviously lost the popularity contest with womyn, but it has a longer history in American dialectal writing, especially in Westerns. Calamity Jane and Annie Oakley were wimmin, by gum!
TwistofFate, when was this?
I had an eye-opening experience where I casually tossed off a mention to being harassed by a recruiter in the military. I was called a liar, because I hadn’t come up with this immediately. The womyn on the thread speculated on what the harassment had been, and they got sexually explicit, even though I asked them not, repeatedly. They talked about parts of my body and speculated that I’d been brainwashed.
The most disturbing thing about it was also the most subtle. I don’t call myself a victim, having moved on from what to me was merely a slapworthy incident. They were determined, however, to cast me as a victim, no matter what I wanted. And I just thought: you know, what would they do if every vicitim moved on without them? Where would their relevence be?
It seemed to sum up that end of the intellectual spectrum right there.
Women and minorities, with a little common sense thrown in, catsix…funny thing is, this guy is now an academic physician, and every time his students come complaining to him about how much more of a PITA it is to have everyone represented in their research, he has to confess it’s all his fault! 
Changing the spelling to womyn is even more ridiculous than turning “manhole” into “personhole.”
And in my opinion, Plosphr, you weren’t out of line at all; you were obviously joking, and even if you weren’t, that comment was mild. Hell, I’d have ranked on them much harder than that, and I’m a girl. (Well, maybe I’d have ranked on her harder because I’m a girl…and think that it’s radical feminists like that woman who took offence that make the rest of us look like hormone-ruled penis hating bitches).
My first thought when confronted with the “woman has man inside it” idea is, “But I LIKE having a man inside me!” Sadly, I have not had the opportunity to use this, nor do I have the nerve to, at least not face-to-face.
When did feminist come to mean “man hating bitch,” anyway? I like men just fine.
What do the fine people at Morgan-Stanley have against the SDMB?
I feel SO not up to date on “current” events. What the DEVIL does WOMYN stand for?
I gather from the thread here that it’s some sort of feminist group that has changed the spelling of women to womyn, and hijacked it to use for their group. Right?
Is womyn also an acronym for something?
(I’m SO confused here :D)
Womyn = doubleplusungood.
I can’t remember the dates, but I think one of our threads got highlighted over there, and lead to posters from there coming over here, and vice versa. The resulting offal flinging meltdown was a sight to behold. IMHO, Lets just say that they are WAY more insular and uptight than we are over here.