Re: yet another earth as mother comment

[Dancing Hummingbird /aka Joy Williams]

Perhaps I should explain more fully that last comment.  i don't 
understand the reasoning behind the spelling of "womyn" other than to 
totally disassociate ourselves from men.  And I don't want to do that.  I 
am a feminist, but I also love men, and do not see a problem with the 
word "woman" or "she" or "female", because it includes men, who are 
carried in womb or a woman.  It is inclusive, rather than divisive.  Now, 
I also understand the the origins of the word "woman" are from 
archaic English:  "wif-man", 
but changing the last syllable does nothing to change the meaning of the 
word...it just looks contrived to me.  If you really want to change the 
word, we really need to change the first syllable, not the last.  There 
must be some archaic Greek word for people of our gender that does not 
define as an appendage to a man, but does not separate us from each 
other yet keeps our genders understood.  And this should be for both 
sexes, because "man", "he" and "male" do not include our gender at all, 
while the words that describe our gender do include them.  So in a 
perverse one could almost say that the words used for those of the 
opposite gender are disempowering more for them than for us.

I don't know if I'm making much sense here.

Joy Williams
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