On Trolls

[mynameisnotreal]

And man... My hit counter is ticking like a Geiger counter. Thanks to ginmar for bringing all this traffic to my journal!

It's always good to see my interest of civil rights, equality and the check of governmental abuse of power spread to the unwashed masses, that is, ginmars debutantes.

Comments

[altamira16]

What do you use as a hit counter, and where do you put it on your LJ?

[mynameisnotreal]

http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s45mynameisnotreal&r=89

And where I hide it, is a problem for the student to solve.

[fallconsmate]

i'm amused. i've been reading your journal via someone els's f-list for some years now, and you're still the same person you've apparently always been. trollbait or not, you post good stuff. carry on! :)

[mynameisnotreal]

Heh... Thanks! You should add me a friend; I'm told the stuff that I post 'friends only' is even better. I don't think I've ever posted any of the On Things Overheard as public.

[fallconsmate]

thank you, i will. :)

[mynameisnotreal]

You ever heard my rant about the word "womyn"? It's ridiculous.

In old English, the word 'man' meant person. At one time, English had gender neutral pronouns. Today, it doesn't. Thus, at one time, the word 'man' meant person. You would define it as being male or female by the prefix. Wer for male, wif for female. This is reflected today by words such as wife and werewolf.

To me, saying you are a womyn seems to imply that you are not a person or even less than human.

I've also been confronted about words that show ownership of the men over the women by words like male and female. The fe is supposed, by some, to be some prefix to show inferiority or some other such thing. This is an interesting story until you look into etymology and see that the words are from the Old French word femelle, which was derived from the Latin femina. Male is a misspelling of Old Frech masle, from the Latin masculus "masculine, male"

Herstory is another one that makes me wince, since the word follows a trail from Old French, through Latin and

[valyazhnaya]

tl;dr

j/k!!!