Absolutely fecking ridiculous. In fact, the first time I ever heard mention of it was on an episode of Beavis and Butthead, and I figured that Mike Judge himself made it up as satire. Imagine my surprise when I saw it used seriously.
I would quote the philosophers Beavis and Butthead (in the episode Womyn, upon noting that a sign was misspelled):
"Cool! Stupid chicks put out!"
Amen – I get this same feeling when I encounter the White Trash Phonetics (WTP) of Ted Nugent, et al: spelling “Z” sounds (“bluez”, “newz”, etc.) phonetically is always a sign of high intelligence.
Completely stupid, but I’m not too worried- I got the impression this was an old fad that had its moment a long time ago.
Well I, personally, feel that the word “woman” actually means “womb of a man” and this it makes me feel like nothing but a womb. Spelling womyn with a y makes me feel liberated and free.
…Aw shit, who am I kidding. I think anyone who uses that word must be a hippie sandals-with-socks wearing loser.
I’ve met plenty of those losers. Never heard any of them use “womyn,” though.
Hell no.
Not the pit? So I can’t say they are narrow-minded fucktwits? Okidoki.
It offends me. Then again, I hate purposefully misspelled words on the whole. No, your name is not cute if it is spelled unique, it is lame and I don’t care if the dot over your i is a heart on your birth certificate.
Another stupid, counter-productive idea by navel gazers who don’t have enough sense or guts to tackle real problems.
I’m an unapologetic feminist from way back who long ago resigned herself that there’s no concept so sensible that blithering idiots can’t corrupt it for their own purposes.
I’m not a womyn, whatever the hell that is. I’m a woman, a (gasp!) female, and damned glad of it. Love men, appreciate and respect them as the other half of the goddamned species and aren’t about to dismiss a single damned one of 'em, much less en masse, on account of gender.
Gotta be amused at the tortured, convoluted extremes people go to in the name of ‘principles’, though.
I prefer the term “Wimmen!”
Actually, “woman” means “wife of man.”
Yes, that’s what it means.
And you can’t change it by changing the spelling. All you can do is learn to speak some other language.
Hey, i resemble that remark! (Except for the Birkenstock part. Damn things hurt my feet. I have no idea why they’re so highly rated.) 
And I think womyn, or worse, wymmyn, is just fucking ridiculous.
I think Private Eye used to have a column marking the more egregious activities of radical feminists entitled “Wimmin.”
I was amused when a friend took a job as ombudsman at a large university. About two months later the office was renamed “Ombuds Services” and his title was changed to “Ombudsperson.” A friend who worked in the legal office of Norwegian descent laughed - apparently the origin of the word has nothing to do with gender.
I do like “Ombuds Services,” though, I must admit.
Silly; reminds of the complaints over the word “history”, and the attempts to call it “herstory” or “personstory”. Then there were the folks who wanted to remain “seminars” “ovulars”.
- rename * :smack:
If it’s about equality, why not just call everyone “men” and be done with it?
**ducks from a barrage of birkenstocks
The feminists who prefer womyn to women must be persontal but I much prefer mental
HEY! As a tree-huggin, moon-howling nutball, I resent that.
Oh wait, I don’t wear Birkenstocks… Carry on.
I think it’s silly as all get out.
I thought it was ment-- er, persontal when I first heard it. Whenever I heard it being discussed in serious conversation by one or more advocates of it, all I could think of were stereotypical stocky, mustachioed mysandrists having failed at eradicating the male gender altogether and settling for plotting a coup of the English language as a means of eradicating their semblance instead.
Ovulars, indeed.
Sure. Do you feel the same way about calling everyone “women”?