Just had my women's studies class...

[conuly]

We spent fully half an hour discussing the schedule and getting handouts. Honestly, the number of trees which have been slaughtered for this class is staggering.

And look at one of the handouts. It starts off "Ladies Nite Open Mic". Now, I'm not going to tackle the abomination which is nite, since I know they did that on purpose. But what about the Ladies? Shouldn't that be "ladies'" instead? Why, yes, yes it should! Morons.

It gets better, though. You didn't think I'd make an entire post just to bitch about one lost apostrophe, did you?

Ever feel like your voice is not being heard? The Revolutionary Alliance of Womyn (RAW) in conjunction with the Women's Center is sponsoring an Open MIc for all womyn and myn.

First, there should be a comma after "Revolutionary Alliance of Womyn (RAW). But more importantly...

WOMYN AND MYN???

WTF?

I grudgingly don't complain about "womyn". I understand the twisted logic behind that spelling, along with its lack of etymology. Personally, I'd prefer to just bring back were and wereman, but people don't listen to me... However, back on topic, what the fuck is up with "myn"? How does that prove anything other than that you think ys are cool? Is the E evil? Did it slaughter innocents? Must w boycott th most popular lttr in the Nglish alphabt?

DOWN WITH... UH... THAT LTTR!

I'm so laughing at that flyer that I won't even (vn) get into the discussion itself.

Comments

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

Neomail?

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

Book without E (http://www.spinelessbooks.com/gadsby/)

[conuly]

Not at school.

[genepool23.livejournal.com]

You beat me to it. :(

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

Argh. On a water faerie quest.

[yadfothgildloc.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you know that the womyn thing falls flat. It just adds another step into the etymological train. Myn, though, is just fucking hysterical.

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

My mom pointed out a long time ago how history is in no way "his story" (they tried to tell her that in catchecism sp? class) since she spoke French as well, and it most certainly does NOT make sense for histoire to break down as "his toire". I think that was one of the first steps away from religion thta she took - and she was only about 6!

[furiosity.livejournal.com]

Bwaha. Womyn and myn. *giggles helplessly*

I read a funny story once about the letter O going missing and the results of this disappearance (one of them was that Caca Cala suddenly became a much less popular beverage). Alas, I don't remember who wrote it.

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

What can I say? I'm fast on the click.

[conuly]

Yup, I know. I keep my mouth shut about it because I know it's full of good intentions, but personally I mock it for its naivete.

[conuly]

And she always points out that the rest of the class spoke Spanish or Italian.

[conuly]

Why not just go l337? C0ca c0la.

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

However, in Spanish, historia does actually mean story and history. Let alone , genero vs sexo for genre/gender/sex.

[furiosity.livejournal.com]

That story was written before 1337-speak existed. That's probably why.

[phoebonica.livejournal.com]

Wow.
That... makes no sense. None. None at all. I'm sitting here trying to come up with a plausible reason why they might have done that, but there's nothing. And I'm normally quite good at rationalising these sorts of things.
I mean, not only is that completely pointless, it actually makes the "womyn" pointless as well, so it's doubly pointless. And nobody caught that?
I'm a little bit scared right now.

[conuly]

Ah, but it doesn't mean his story. You can't take the his part out and still have toria mean "story".

[conuly]

You're not the only one. Did you catch the email I got from my school a while back?

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

However, in Spanish, historia does actually mean story and history

Yes, but does it mean HIS story, versus HER story, or just A story? That's the issue here. :-) The nuns contention was that history meant HIS story, as in, the story of Jesus (or god, I dunno.) In any case, that perception is how you get well-intentioned, if misinformed (or perhaps just a marketing ploy, in which case it's okay), feminist projects that deal with "herstory."

[conuly]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/conuly/576661.html

[conuly]

Unless I'm mistaken, historia is even a feminine noun, so.

[neurotica0.livejournal.com]

Wow, the "c" and the "l" together really look like a "d."

That made reading your comment really interesting. And really confusing.

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

Nevermind. Got it. :-)

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

I saw exactly the same thing at first glance! Glad to know I'm not the only one. :-)

[phoebonica.livejournal.com]

Excessive exclamation marks actually make me flinch a bit.

[conuly]

Especially where question marks should be, right?