{"id":965,"date":"2004-01-27T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-27T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/?p=965"},"modified":"2004-01-27T12:16:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-27T18:16:00","slug":"todays-political-incorrectness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/27\/todays-political-incorrectness\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Political Incorrectness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came to the realization that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=womyn\">Womyn<\/a> is a misspelling.<\/p>\n<p>I came to this conclusion not because it opts to remove the &#8216;<em>a\/e<\/em>&#8216; from <em>man\/men<\/em> to make it less tied to the gender. My issue is the choice to use &#8216;<em>y<\/em>.&#8217; It would seem if one is trying to sever all connections to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/focus\/ychromosome\/\">y chromosome<\/a>. Than the proper spelling for the double x endowed would be:<\/p>\n<p><strong>womxn<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Another message from the coalition for the <i>equality<\/i> and <i>partnership<\/i> of the genders.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-965\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/27\/todays-political-incorrectness\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-965\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/27\/todays-political-incorrectness\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-965\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/27\/todays-political-incorrectness\/?share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/27\/todays-political-incorrectness\/?share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came to the realization that Womyn is a misspelling. 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