Attempts to "reclaim" words that are nothing to do with gender, race, religion, etc. by replacing the offensive part of the word with something equally stupid and inane (i.e. herstory)should always meet a swift, merciless response.
Sterilization via weed-wacker and/or hedge trimmer comes to mind.
I always figured those who come up with things like "herstory" or "Doubled Eggs" (removing the Devil from the eggs) just shows their profound ignorance or phobia every time they use their term.
Some terms that really set my teeth on edge is the term "womon/womyn", (which is not only just as gender-specific as "woman", but also shows the user has an anti-male gender bias), or the supposed gender-neutral terms "e", "eir", "sie" and "hir"
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Sterilization via weed-wacker and/or hedge trimmer comes to mind.
I always figured those who come up with things like "herstory" or "Doubled Eggs" (removing the Devil from the eggs) just shows their profound ignorance or phobia every time they use their term.
Some terms that really set my teeth on edge is the term "womon/womyn", (which is not only just as gender-specific as "woman", but also shows the user has an anti-male gender bias), or the supposed gender-neutral terms "e", "eir", "sie" and "hir"