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<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 9298678" data-attributes="member: 2525"><p>It's definitely not uncommon for Witch to carry a female gender connotation and Wizard to carry a male gender connotation outside of Harry Potter, particularly given it was written in the mid 1990s. From the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_(word)#:~:text=In%20current%20colloquial%20English%20witch,equivalent%20being%20warlock%20or%20wizard." target="_blank">Wikipedia entry</a>, "In current colloquial English witch is almost exclusively applied to women, with the male equivalent being warlock or wizard." That was definitely not an invention or alteration by Rowling. </p><p></p><p>And I had no idea you were trans but the point doesn't alter in any way for you being trans. You did choose the very gendered type title of Queen when Monarch was available, just as Rowling chose a gendered type title of Witch when a gender neutral one was available. </p><p></p><p>If femininity is important, then Witch would have been as appropriate as Queen. You seem to be sending a mixed message here - it's OK for femininity in a title to be important to you, but not to an author in the 90s? Why is it sexism for Rowling to use Witch to mean female (which it was when she wrote it - nearly universally) but it's not sexism for you to use Queen to mean female (which it is nearly universally)?</p><p></p><p>I totally get you don't like Rowling, for good reason. I don't get this particular focus on Witch and Wizard though. I think it misses the mark, and if there is some sin there you're just as guilty of it for your own user title.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 9298678, member: 2525"] It's definitely not uncommon for Witch to carry a female gender connotation and Wizard to carry a male gender connotation outside of Harry Potter, particularly given it was written in the mid 1990s. From the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_(word)#:~:text=In%20current%20colloquial%20English%20witch,equivalent%20being%20warlock%20or%20wizard.']Wikipedia entry[/URL], "In current colloquial English[B] [/B]witch is almost exclusively applied to women, with the male equivalent being warlock or wizard." That was definitely not an invention or alteration by Rowling. And I had no idea you were trans but the point doesn't alter in any way for you being trans. You did choose the very gendered type title of Queen when Monarch was available, just as Rowling chose a gendered type title of Witch when a gender neutral one was available. If femininity is important, then Witch would have been as appropriate as Queen. You seem to be sending a mixed message here - it's OK for femininity in a title to be important to you, but not to an author in the 90s? Why is it sexism for Rowling to use Witch to mean female (which it was when she wrote it - nearly universally) but it's not sexism for you to use Queen to mean female (which it is nearly universally)? I totally get you don't like Rowling, for good reason. I don't get this particular focus on Witch and Wizard though. I think it misses the mark, and if there is some sin there you're just as guilty of it for your own user title. [/QUOTE]
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