![]() That said, i’m curious as to what had you googling “folx” in the first place. Jan 10 Replying to sheededonem Less characters. To the best of my knowledge, folx isn’t used as a gender neutral term for folks. ![]() 850.5K Views 989 Retweets 301 Quote Tweets 17.7K Likes Monica McLemore PhD, MPH, RN see me on mastodon mclemoremr Womxn, folx, and Latinx are all used to acknowledge the shortcomings of gender-binary language (meaning, limited to male or female).i’ve personally come to the conclusion that while there may be people who use it for gender-related reasons, more often than not “folx” seems to be used exclusively on the internet as a form of internet speak / slang in the same vein as “thx” meaning “thanks”, “sux” meaning “sucks” and “rox” meaning “rocks” etc for reasons that often boil down to #BecauseInternet and / or character limitations. The use of folx instead of folks is finally starting to kind’ve bother me in 2023. Since those posts in 2015, i can quite literally count on one hand the number of times i’ve come across usage of “folx” outside of Twitter, where it’s used quite commonly. In recent weeks, as protests against police. African-American, Negro, colored and the unutterable slur that rhymes with bigger. I’m guessing that is the post that Google directed you to, but i wonder if you also saw that followed that one? Black Americans have been called by many names in the United States. Have you figured anything out about “folx” since then? I already follow you on tumblr and when I googled why people use folx instead of folks I was redirected to you! that’s cool…but in that ask you answered in 2015 you weren’t completely sure why folx was needed when “folks” is already gender neutral – that’s where I am as well.
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