*sighs*

[conuly]

I know some people like to say "womyn" instead of woman. I know WHY they do this too, and I won't say anything, even though I think it's stupid. But to defend your use of woman by saying it's a man with a womb... that's ignorance.

Man: Original meaning? Human. Germanic word
Woman: Original form? Wif-man, or "woman human".
Werman: Meaning? Man human (think werewolf).
Human: From Latin humanus, cognate with homo (not the homo in homosexual, the one in homo sapiens)

Note that the "wo" in woman is the same root as the "wife" in wife.

Wife: Akin to OHG wIb, wife.
Womb: Akin to OHG wamba, belly.

As you can see, woman has NOTHING TO DO with womb-man. So please don't spread that around, especially when a few minutes with a dictionary can dispell any such silly notion.

Comments

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

THANKYOU for pointing that out.

I honestly think saying "womyn" is for whiny wankers. the "man" part at the end has jack to do with maledom. That's like the joke where women at a university complained about the word "woman" on the bathroom door, because it's "womb and man." So they changed it to "woperson." "No! There's son in it!" "Fine, ya'll're now woperpygmies!"