Zero wisdom in Sophie
Behold the huge whiney droning man complaining about women thinking they have rights too.
It’s similar to the way “women” was spelt with a y a few years ago; it’s an effort to stop men being part of the phrase
Hold it right there, bro. One, a word is not a phrase; two, and much more important, men don’t get to be “part of” the word “women.” It’s not a ticket to the movies, it’s not a birthday party, it’s not girls’ night out, it’s not a club, it’s not school, it’s not public transportation, it’s not prizes – it’s not any kind of rank or status or club that one can join or aspire to or make great efforts to belong to. It’s not up for grabs in that way. You can’t ever be a woman, because you’re a man. That’s just how it works. You also can’t be a rabbit or New Zealand or Mercury. Stop whining.
The word women with a y actually has some sort of quite elitist very non-intersectional overtones, it’s predominantly a certain type of white middle-class feminist that would use that word, it doesn’t include women of color, it doesn’t include trans women
Somebody tell this guy he’s white. Also fuck off: we don’t have to intersect with you. We’re adults too, we get to choose our friend and comrades too, and we don’t choose you. You’re a spiteful toad calling women names for not submitting to your demands. Stop talking.
I think adult human males should be called “weremen,” with “men” instead referring to humans regardless of sex. I would do it if there were a broader movement promoting this change in usage. As things currently are, saying “weremen” would probably just confuse people.
A mild irritation compared to the forceful shoving of men into everything, perhaps, but the actual etymology of the word “woman” and its relationship to man, wereman (were-wolf, etc.), and human is more interesting than the false etymology often claimed:
https://sillylinguistics.com/the-words-man-woman-male-and-female/
(…I know some of the folks here already know it, but still I find this stuff fascinating so for anyone who doesn’t know: enjoy!)
At any rate, I’d be on board with bringing back “wereman”. It’s a bit trickier to say than “man”, so we might even consider allowing the variant pronunciation “ver-man” that might flow better in speech… hm, I suspect I might be seeing why the word fell out of favour ;-)