Damn, and I thought I could hijack the thread and turn it into a vertically challenged bashing session!
How very rude and condescending of these womyn.
Pretty double standard if you ask me.
Although I think it’s quite laudable of you to grin and bear it,the next time a crack of that ilk is made, I think I’d pop of with something like “Little wife? She’s the regulation size model,thank you very much.”
I’m thinking “wymyn”.
On a more serious note, I think worrying about the spelling is stupid. If people treat me with respect, they can refer to me as a “woman”, a “womyn”, or “babycakes”. There are enough societal issues to deal with… glass ceilings to be broken, poverty to be beaten, freedom to be championed, and assholes to be pounded into the ground like railroad spikes. And I’m supposed to be concerned about spelling? Feh.
Or, as Bobby Riggs so eloquently put it: “Women who can, do. Those who can’t, become feminists.”
Hijack: I love this thread. 
You’ve just accurately described all the feminists in my neck of the woods. Unconcerned with poverty, discrimination or being kept down by Da Man, but flippishly freaky about the spelling of a word. Putzes, all of them. 
I never thought there were anyone who thought of this seriously. The first time I heard of “womyn”, was on an episode of Beavis and Butthead for crissakes! I thought they were parodying extremist feminists.
:rolleyes:
Takes all kinds, I guess.
I actually perfer chick, myself.
I do take offense to things like that.
And I don’t like being referred to as a chick, or babycakes or whatever. But a woman? That’s what I am, it’s not deragatory.
Hell, they can call themselves anything they want, as long as I get my bycon and pyncykes every morning.
…D&R.
I am fervently in favor of the introduction of the word “bystyrd”. I urge its widespread spread. Insert double entendres here.
My God! The feminist movement is part of the Welsh Conspiracy Against Vowels! RUN!!!
My spelling is bad enough now. I refuse to change one of the few words I get right.
Woman woman woman. Woman woman woman. Woman woman woman. Woman woman woman.
See I wrote it nine times and got it right each time.
Beside I think the whole idea and reasoning behind it is stupid. But that’s just me.
My math on the other hand bites. Twelve times, twelve !
hijack…but i’ve been meaning to say this for awhile. Ayesha, wouldn’t it be more correct gramatically to say, “Je suis Ayesha! Craignez-moi!” as opposed to what’s already in your sig? Sorry, I’m just really anal…
Actually, wouldn’t it be Je m’appelle Ayesha? Unless “Ayesha” is a state of being as much as a name, which it might be. 
Spelling woman with a y puts me in mind of people who change the spelling of their names to sound cooler. “I’m not Michelle anymore, I’m Mychylle!” Or maybe 80s hair bands. In any case, it’s frelling stupid. Sooner or later we’ll start having casualties from flying Y’s.
Wait, isn’t the Y chromosome the one that determines a person to be male? What the hell is it doing in a nut-crunching psycho-feminist word? Shouldn’t they be campaigning to ban the letter Y from the alphabet altogether?
Oh, and this is one more vote for “chick” … that’s what I call myself and all others of my gender, or who prefer to be known by my gender.
Uh oh…
-Kathi. 
I somehow wound up on a feminist Pagan mailing list that refers to women as “wombyn.” And don’t forget the opening salvo: “Merry meet, systerz!” It’s as stupid as some feminists declaring that the word “HIStory” is sexist because it might through some ass-backwards calculation look like it says “his story.” Hello, you fucktards, it’s fucking Greek, it never meant “his” anything. I don’t understand how this is supposed to help us reclaim our feminism or what-fucking-ever else from the years of evil patriarchy – all it does is make us look fucking stupid.
Ummm allow me to clarify my statement for those who have y’s in their name. I was remarking about people who substitute Y for random vowels in their name for the sole purpose of looking cool. No dis intended to anyone here. Really. Honest. Cross my heart with a double espresso.
I think your mother is on a good mission. I am in favour of the change.
I think spelling the word, womyn, and femyle would be a good positive change.
Finally get rid of the man, male reference.
Saying there are better things to do, is a very weak reason, and is usually used in arguments, in replace of thinking.
It is the same with the words, gals and guys
Guys, is used to refer to both genders, but walk into a mainly male bar and say, hey gals, and see the response.
Why is it that femyles are more accepting of the guy word, but men, generally would be offended if referred to as gals?
What does it mean, when a male is offended, if called by a femyle reference, such as gals? Firstly it is an insult to femyles, considering that it happens in reverse, all the time. And secondly, it states that the ‘gal’ or ‘femyle’ is undesirable and inferior, and is understood as being derogatory.
It’s a rather complex issue, goes into our sexuality, our social orientation, and all the bias that have suppressed womyn since the cave days, and by relation men as well.
When ones refers to the femyle, one does not want to be forced to refer to the male, indirectly. The femyle is not an appendage of the male. Word use, holds a lot of power, and is important to some.
People go on and on about how important, vocabulary is, the literacy rate, using the correct words, spelling, even punctuation, and the power of the written word, to shape and sway human thoughts and feelings, etc. But when it comes to gender bias terms, sexist terms that render the femyle invisible, they’re unconscious, and their indifferent, lackadaisical attitudes, reduces the issue to a joke.
Not long ago, in every book , all we read was, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, … And in medical charts, the muscles, skeleton, internal organs,the entire body was male, with a little picture of the femyle reproductive organs, displayed in a small box at the bottom. It’s a male model used to represent both the male and the femyle
After while, using both, he and she, his and her, etc. interchangeably in texts, it lost its political correct tag, and is NOW perceived as a better way of discourse, more inclusive and less offensive.
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*Originally posted by Iamthat *
I think your mother is on a good mission. I am in favour of the change.
That makes what…one pro vote so far?
No it isn’t. In fact, it just makes you look like a whiner.
Better yet, kill all men everywhere!
Why is the Dom DeLuise scene from Blazing Saddles* playing through my head after reading this?
Does not.
And this, lydyes and wife-beating scumsucking evil men, is an example of missing the gangplank to get to the dock.