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Originally Posted by HarryT
I worked for many years in the UK's nuclear power industry, and we used to regularly get protesters outside our site. One particular protest group, who used to turn up on quite a regular basis, always amused me because they had a large sign that said on it "WIMMIN AGAINST NUKES"  . |
The use of the word "Wimmin" was a political and rhetorical move on the part of the protesters - to avoid having their gender defined in relation to men - as the word "women" does...it is argued. It certainly wasn't a typo.