womenfolk

Once you pop ‘em out * somebody’s* got to feed them and change them and teach them not to play in traffic, so eventually you still end up with the domesticity versus adventure dichotomy, even if you can at least spring your womenfolk from the thankless task of representing it.

Home is where the hero isn’t at SF Novelists 2010

Or, "White men are very protective of their womenfolk, which is godly and noble, but you shouldn't provoke their sinful wrath by talking to white women in front of them."

Triablogue Rhology 2010

a good-natured people, with a little touch of Teuton grossness perhaps, which makes them swill overmuch beer, and with an arrogance towards their womenfolk which is not tolerable to

The Soul of the War Philip Gibbs 1919

So he cried peace to his womenfolk, who were overwrought with anger and with hooch, and led the tribe even to thy meat caches.

A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010

Listening to Kody Brown and his three womenfolk describe their marital arrangement -- Kody is legally married to his first wife, Meri, and the other two, Janelle and Christine, are "wives" in a spiritual sense; they're all in their late 30s and early 40s -- one is struck by how common-sense they make it sound, if just for a fleeting moment.

TLC's 'Sister Wives': Frank, entertaining TV about polygamist Browns in Utah Hank Stuever 2010

And North African pirates were stealing our womenfolk from French and Cornish ports to sell them into slave markets well into the 18th century.

Roshonara Choudhry: a sad and misguided case Michael White 2010

The Mexican ain't much of a crafter--I leave that to the womenfolk, as my daily fill with sharp objects is already met with lawnmowers and garden sheers--but fully endorse Cano-Murillo, as my said womenfolk idolize the mujer.

Gustavo Arellano: ¡ASK A MEXICAN!: Special Mujer Edition Gustavo Arellano 2011

So he cried peace to his womenfolk, who were overwrought with anger and with hooch, and led the tribe even to thy meat caches.

A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010

Now we move to the womenfolk of the Batman Family (remember that story where Batgirl fought the ghost of Benedict Arnold from that title?), as Batwoman takes over the title with Detective Comics #854, written by Greg Rucka and drawn by JH Williams III, with a The Question backup feature by Rucka and Cully Hamner.

Quick Hits – Checking in on Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman 2009

Now we move to the womenfolk of the Batman Family (remember that story where Batgirl fought the ghost of Benedict Arnold from that title?), as Batwoman takes over the title with Detective Comics #854, written by Greg Rucka and drawn by JH Williams III, with a The Question backup feature by Rucka and Cully Hamner.

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