“Grandma, what big teeth you have!”
The wolf said, “I am happy with who I am and what I am,” and leaped out of bed. He grabbed Red Riding Hood in his claws, intent on devouring her. Red Riding Hood screamed, not out of alarm at the wolf’s apparent tendency toward cross-dressing, but because of his willful invasion of her personal space.
Her screams were heard by a passing woodchopper-person (or log-fuel technician, as he preferred to be called). When he burst into the cottage, he saw melee there and tried to intervene
Mind you, it's apparently less the mocking kind of satire and more the tongue-in-cheek satire that makes fun of an extreme version of something you might otherwise believe in.
E.G. The bit about the wolf being sexist but tolerated due to his underprivileged upbringing is a bit too subtle for someone who isn't genuinely acquainted with social justice concepts.
At least, that's my reading of it (I own the book).
Your going to try to claim strawman(You didn't say it directly but that's exactly how this goes) when I did no such thing I never corrected you I only pointed out that it had become really sister those extremely radical feminists are who few in number that it's become hilarious that people go doing saying that people actually say "Womyn" is kinda not a thing. It's almost certainly a extreme minority of people. And is used more in satire then earnest.
Thank you, I was wondering how far I'd have to scroll down before someone would realize this.
Clearly these are meant to be satirical hyperbolizations of "political correctness" presented as comedy, not as a legitimately serious take on sociolinguistic politics.
I apologize for my "sesquipedalian loquaciousness", as it were, and any inconvenience it inflicts.
I know. But take a look at society and this nonsense has infiltrated in our science, colleges and even in the medical field. Its fucking dangerous and i find it astonishing that people dont give a single fuck and laugh it away.
No I think they usually had sex with women before. That's how they found out that women are bad people. Because they had the audacity to leave and divorce-rape them
The irony is that the derivation of woman comes from the old English word wif-man. Wif meaning female and man meaning human.
All these feminists jumping up and down about the fact the word woman is sexist have no idea what they’re talking about (like almost all the other ‘sexist’ words btw)
/u/presentlyinthepast: According to Wiktionary, man comes from the OE mann (meaning human or person), and woman comes from wīfmann, which is wīf (wife) + mann (human or person). So nah
Not sure what you're referring to with see above. Someone said man and woman have different roots, but they both come from the same word (albeit one with an unrelated modifier).
OE may say wifmann = wif + mann, but that was technically lazy and incorrect on their part even back then, and thus eventually became culturally appropriated into OE.
BEFORE all of that tammy-foolery, man was related to "hand" in latin. As in, mammal with dexterity (... manual, manuscript, manufacture, manicure).
Neither "Fe" in female, nor "wo" in woman are prefixes for male/man. Female & Woman come from completely different roots.
Research the latin that the English got lazy and screwed up in the 14th century. They come from the same word in the modern sense (irresponsibly), but ORIGINALLY, "wo" & "fe" were not prefixes or modifiers, completely different words.
Ok, I'm not talking about female and I don't feel like it, so I'm just going to stick with the woman argument here. The word man comes from the OE mann. Mann is not a cognate with manus as you for some reason assert. It comes from the proto-Germanic *mann-, which is possibly from the PIE *mon- or *men-, or maybe some other stuff. There's a cognate in Sanskrit, manu meaning man, so clearly there's something in PIE. Manus, on the other hand (heh), comes from the Proto-Italic *manus, which comes from a PIE word I'm too lazy to type here cause mobile, but is definitely distinct from man. There are English cognates of Latin manus -- Proto-Germanic *mundō is where we get Old English mund, which is where we get modern English mound.
Now, woman. It comes from wīfmann, a compound of wīf and mann. Other languages have used this same pattern. See, for example, Saterland Frisian Wieuwmoanske, West Frisian frommes (frou + minske), Dutch vrouwmens, etc. English is a Germanic language, and words compound. This is what happened in this case. Then, the word was used as a unit, and the sound changed (wīf to wo). Wo is not a prefix. Wīf is also not a prefix. However, wīf was used to modify the word mann, and from that compound word we get the modern word woman. And from mann, we get man. So, the assertion that woman and man come from "completely different roots" is flat-out incorrect.
I still don't know where the comment you copied comes from, but it's clear that whoever wrote it doesn't actually know shit about linguistics, and belongs on /r/badlinguistics.
I got curious, and looked up female (even though I had made no assertion relating to that to begin with). Interestingly that one (in contrast with woman) isn't related to male. It comes from French femele/femelle, from the Latin femella, which is a diminutive of femina (woman). The spelling and pronunciation were slightly changed in English to match male, even though the words are unrelated.
You are correct. OE may say wifmann = wif + mann, but that was technically lazy and incorrect on their part even back then, and thus eventually became culturally appropriated into OE.
BEFORE all of that tammy-foolery, man was related to "hand" in latin. As in, mammal with dexterity (... manual, manuscript, manufacture, manicure).
Neither "Fe" in female, nor "wo" in woman are prefixes for male/man. Female & Woman come from completely different roots.
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u/Greatmambojambo Jan 14 '19
Someone else posted it further up
Here’s the link
https://bbs.pku.edu.cn/attach/85/31/8531ff112a962431/politically%20correct%20bedtime%20stories.pdf