Talk:Werewoman

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Who created this stupid title? "Were-" is Old English for "man." A werewolf (manwolf) is a man who changes into a wolf. So, a werewoman can only be a man who changes into a woman. The Old English term for "woman" is "wif." So, a female werewolf would be a wifwolf.

That doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, however, especially since "wif" is pronounced "wife." I would suggest calling this article "female lycanthropes." I realize that the term "werewoman" has been around. Doesn't change the fact that it's idiotic. 2603:9000:8D07:AAB0:BC41:63C9:B8EA:C47D (talk) 09:20, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

After you are through with this, will you also attack the articles Sea lion, Guinea pig, Sea cucumber, Prairie dog, Sea horse, Hummingbird, Cuttlefish and Groundhog?

But the article indeed has the problem of being about several subjects bearing the same name. There should be a disambiguation page. --Hob Gadling (talk) 10:58, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Merge

Majority of the content of this page is either already covered or could be easily woven into the Werewolf article, ie historical records and witch trials and the folklore around people allegedly shape-shifting into beasts. While 'were' does mean "man" in Old English, the word 'werewolf' is commonly used to mean people of any gender turning into wolves in contemporary media. Not to mention that werewoman translates to "man-woman".

As for the so-called transgender culture, the content presented in the section is predominantly transphobic in nature likening trans women to monsters who prey on people or is blatant exploitative pornography. 79.44.113.135 (talk) 00:10, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

Dubious

this seems highly dubious to me - "were" in werewolf does not mean the ability to transform, it means "man", so the term werewolf literally means "manwolf", which is what they are, (hu)men who take the shape of a wolf CWWrites (talk) 01:23, 13 February 2024 (UTC)