A London museum swapped ‘women’ for ‘womxn’ and it didn’t go down well
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Translation: women are not diverse. They are an undifferentiated mass of lumpen mumsyness whose dreary similarity needs to be leavened by the addition of trendy consonants and radical haircuts. https://t.co/YCk8E5TDW0
— MarinaS (@marstrina) October 10, 2018
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Mxn too? No, thought not. Women is a word. It means something. Refusing to use it really means something to many many women.
— Fran (@Hipforhat) October 10, 2018
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Exciting update from @ExploreWellcome which, last time I checked, specialises in science. The new gender categories are "men" and "other." Good to know! https://t.co/otWsxqV8eU
— Hadley Freeman (@HadleyFreeman) October 10, 2018
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Are you going to start using 'mxn' too then?
No. Thought not. #womanmeanssomething https://t.co/XYg4N0Fvps— Bo (@bo_novak) October 9, 2018
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I find myself incurably curious as to why you have decided to erase the word women without for a moment considering why that might create a space/venue that excludes women. It is spelt WOMEN.
— Jenny Dee (@JennyAnnDee) October 10, 2018
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Disapoined that @ExploreWellcome – an organisation I admire – are playing this dangerous faux-radical linguistic game in name of diversity. Simultaneously degrades women, language, science & art galleries. Shame. If this is meant to signal inclusive virtue, it has backfired. https://t.co/L4hMRW7gkR
— Claire Fox (@Fox_Claire) October 10, 2018
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Surx, makxs sxnsx. https://t.co/lCupW6gCT3
— Sam White (@SamWhiteTky) October 10, 2018
To conclude …
Please. Just go and sit down and have a good think. And then consider apologising.
— Melanie Jappy (@japster2008) October 10, 2018
