Naturally Christina Hoff Sommers is contemptuous of TIME’s cowardly failure to tell feminists that they are pompous idiots for doing something Christina Hoff Sommers doesn’t approve. Naturally the only True Feminism™ is that approved first by Richard Dawkins and then by Christina Hoff Sommers.
Christina H. Sommers @CHSommers · Nov 16
TIME caved to pressure. Has stopped poll on most cringe-inducing word because “feminist” was winning by a landslide. http://time.com/3576870/worst-words-poll-2014/
How dare TIME cave to pressure? How dare anyone cave to pressure? How dare Little Rock Central High School cave to pressure and allow African-American students to enter the building? How dare the mobs outside Little Rock Central High School cave to pressure and stop screaming at those students? How dare anyone ever pay attention to what an oppressed marginalized group says about how it’s treated?
Pressure is annoying or worse when you disagree with the reasons for it, of course. But that’s what the issue is: the reasons for the pressure, not the pressure itself. Sommers applies pressure herself, constantly, relentlessly, all the time. So do I (but without the clout of the American Enterprise Institute behind me). Pressure we agree with is just persuasion or argument or at most polemics.
In the face of Time’s cowardice, I’m reminded of brave Bill Buckingham, school board trustee for Dover, Pennsylvania:
Of course, he was silenced by political correctness, which means you can’t even mention Jesus in a classroom without being lynched and witch-hunted. Of course, us True™ Secularists have bigger fish to fry than to piss all over people who just want fair representation in the classroom.
Funny how the conservative/libertarian-types always talk about free markets and such, but reject outright any exercises of freedom that don’t provide them with the outcomes they prefer.
Not exactly a propos but, anyway: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a01QQZyl-_I?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360%5D
How dare a shitty mainstream magazine react to the criticisms of it’s deliberately provocative poll.
It is not just about established words like feminism. It is also about words like bae.
But, hey, the “Factual Feminist” get to throw her shit fit about how those out of control feminists are bullying everybody.
What a dishonest person.
Why would Sommers find the word “feminism” cringe-inducing? I thought she claimed to be one, even if only of the “equity feminism” variety.
(Yes, that’s a rhetorical question. I’m well aware that the “equity feminism” thing is just a pretense.)
What, though, is the position that is anti-feminism? “Oh, I’m anti-equality for all people. I *LIKE* seeing at least half of the population categorized as second-class citizens and inherently inferior on the basis of a physical characteristic! I want to see some people have fewer rights and opportunities than other people.”
Who ARE these people??
Blanche@6: *cough* Vox Day, for one *cough*
Let’s not make a list, shall we? The length of it would be too depressing.
So, with feminist stricken off, the list is now only racist, ageist and generally inane?
What else should we add to TIME’s banned word/phrase list? Civil Rights? Emancipation? Women’s Suffrage? Human Rights? Atheism? Democracy? Gay? Judaism? I’m guessing at least a few of those would garner a fair number of votes. What would CHS say then? There’s a reason we should avoid putting the rights of minorities or historically oppressed or marginalized groups up for a vote. If CHS can’t understand that, then she is more stupid than I thought. Nah, not stupid, just a well-paid hack who has long since given up any pretensions to integrity or thinking or consistency. (spits)
Interesting. I had no idea those words were racially or gender marked.
What are the words at the right end of the lines indicative of? (AAVE – what does that even mean? and the others…)
African-American Vernacular English, formerly known as Black Vernacular English and before that as “Ebonics”.
And thank all the imaginary gods for that; if that’s your clout, you might just be the baddies.