Genius innit.
The idea that women means "adult human female" apparently "first gained currency on the transphobic internet forum Mumsnet Towers in 2015"
...before then no one had any concept of the female sex having a name 
It was popularised by Posie Parker using secret Heritage Fund 
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It's got footnotes, so it must be true
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It's amusing that they call the site Mumsnet Towers, like that's its actual name, rather than a tongue-in-cheek reference to the mumsnet HQ. So, despite being utter made up dross, the article had the minor redeeming feature of providing me with a millisecond of mild amusement.
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Yes. Its the twitter handle for MN HQ too. That they couldn't even be bothered to check they got the name of the site right suggests that not a scrap of attention was paid to fact checking anything. Its a brown m&mhttps://www.insider.com/van-halen-brown-m-ms-contract-2016-9 …
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I laughed out loud when I read that.
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It is utterly risable, but also a lie that will be repeated now waving this article as a receipt
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Samuel Johnson’s dictionary (1755) also seemed to think that women were female humans. But he probably got the idea from Mumsnet.pic.twitter.com/CSpduifxKq
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As Johnson said: "When a female human is tired of Mumsnet, she/he/it/they are tired of life."
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There were clues in ancient holy books, in dictionaries and in medical and scientific texts going back centuries, but before the advent of Mumsnet no one had ever managed to put it all together
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The witches knew.
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