The use of "x" as this sort of cultural signal of "non-binariness" is this highly specific thing from a highly specific (English-speaking) subculture that doesn't really make sense to the rest of the world See also the word "womxn" https://twitter.com/mollycrabapple/status/1293261059495690242 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
i am extremely online and extremely queer and i still don't quite know what "womxn" is meant to mean
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Replying to @perdricof
same as "womyn." it's just meant to eliminate the "man" part.
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Replying to @rococo_puffs @perdricof
Well that's the funny thing about it "Womyn" was a 2nd-wave feminist thing and it's now associated with TERFs "Womxn" was invented by trans and non-binary activists and therefore stands in opposition to "womyn"
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You'd think it'd be the other way around given the 2nd-wave interest in biology and chromosomes and such but history is weird like that
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