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Margaret Attwood met with huge backlash by ‘disappointed’ fans over sharing article on use of word ‘woman’
Toronto Star on her page, with the headline: ‘Why can’t we say “woman” anymore?’In the piece, which is behind a paywall, columnist Rosie DiManno stated: ‘“Woman” is in danger of becoming a dirty word … struck from the lexicon of officialdom, eradicated from medical vocabulary and expunged from conversation.‘It shouldn’t leave well-meaning people tongue-tied, lest they be attacked as transphobic or otherwise insensitive to the increasingly complex constructs of gender.‘There’s more than a whiff of misogyny to it. Why “woman” the no-speak word and not “man?” Why not “persons who urinate standing up” or “people who eject semen?”‘Certainly there are words — they are slurs mostly — that are no longer acceptable.
