{"id":60266,"date":"2020-12-15T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T06:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=60266"},"modified":"2020-12-14T09:17:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T14:17:21","slug":"qotd-tedx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/12\/15\/qotd-tedx\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: TedX"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>TedX, a non-official version of the <font color=\"red\"><strike>sanctimonious<\/strike><\/font> ubiquitous Ted Talks programme, is more inclusive than official Ted because they have added a random letter \u2018X\u2019 into the word. On an unrelated note, TedX London have decided to start using the totally real and not at all just made-up word &#8220;Womxn&#8221; when they talk about members of the female persuasion, chapettes, fillies, gels, y&#8217;know, charming, delightful, non-men \u2013 them. They told a <font color=\"red\"><strike>normal person<\/strike><\/font> bigot on Twitter who asked why they were using the word &#8220;womxn&#8221;: &#8220;No, that&#8217;s not a typo: &#8216;womxn&#8217; is a spelling of &#8216;women&#8217; that&#8217;s more inclusive and progressive. The term sheds light on the prejudice, discrimination, and institutional barriers womxn have faced, and explicitly includes non-cisgender women.&#8221; But are TedX really the inclusive group they claim to be? Trans Media Watch, a pro-trans lobby group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-45810709\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">told the BBC<\/a> it would never use the word Womxn: &#8220;because we feel it&#8217;s important for people to recognise that trans women are women. Trans women aren&#8217;t a special, separate category.&#8221; So it turns out &#8220;women&#8221; is the most inclusive term after all. If TedX London hasn\u2019t been cancelled by the end of the week then Twitter&#8217;s not what it was.<\/p>\n<p>David Scullion, <a href=\"https:\/\/thecritic.co.uk\/un-believable\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;UN-Believable&#8221;, <em>The Critic<\/em><\/a>, 2020-09-09.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TedX, a non-official version of the sanctimonious ubiquitous Ted Talks programme, is more inclusive than official Ted because they have added a random letter \u2018X\u2019 into the word. On an unrelated note, TedX London have decided to start using the totally real and not at all just made-up word &#8220;Womxn&#8221; when they talk about members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,57,53,41],"tags":[400,196,351,1020,593,43],"class_list":["post-60266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-humour","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-language","tag-lgbt","tag-politicalcorrectness","tag-progressives","tag-socialmedia","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-fG2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62066,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60266\/revisions\/62066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}