- The word ‘man’ should be punishable by jail time
"Brave protesters at Stanford University have taken a stand for female-identified individuals everywhere: By hosting a “Stanford Womxn’s March,” specifically by spelling it “womxn,” activists there have, as they put it, eliminated “the patriarchal relationship to men” that the word has historically exhibited.
...But why stop there?
What your college campus needs needs is a complete womanist overhaul of the English language—a total re-organization of all male-centric words so that the patrio-fascist hegemony can finally be brought to its linguistic knees.
...But why stop there?
So many words have “man” or “men” in them that it’s virtually impossible to go an hour without being affected by the patriarchy in some way.
Here are some suggestions to bring up in your next dorm collective meeting or advanced womxn’s studies poetry seminar:
“Payment.” You see that? That’s a big, fat “men” right in the middle of that word. Given that we live in a fascist capitalistic society in which people expect “money” in exchange for “goods and services,” it is extremely difficult to go very long without using this word. So let’s change it.
Some ideas: “Paymynt.” “Paymint.” “Paymünt.” “Paymxnt.”
“Instrument.” Many of you are likely double-majoring in feminist musical studies and anarcho-communist symphony orchestra. You’re going to need a word to describe the tools with which you make your beautiful liberationist music..."
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