Surprising no one anywhere (maybe that can be one of TIME’s “words” to be banned next year), TIME’s offering of “feminism” as a candidate for its annual “what word should be banned” poll provided inspiration for the kind of people who hate feminism. How could TIME possibly have foreseen that??! Other than by thinking about it for a quarter of a second, that is.
Yes, why does everyone have to talk about feminism? Why can’t we all just be feminists quietly? At home? Only very late at night when everybody’s sleeping? Or like in our teeny tiniest voices? Or in a soundproof hyperbaric chamber, maybe, where it won’t, like, bother anybody?
Ok, maybe that’s not quite fair, but making a case for banning a word that refers to a mass social movement alongside the nonsense phrase “om nom nom” is pretty stupid. So stupid we suspected it’s the work of 4Chan’s /b/ board, and we were correct. Over at /b/, the Internet’s home for barely potty-trained trolls, everyone’s being encouraged to vote for “feminist,” with one user declaring, brightly, “Let’s trigger some bitches.”
And that’s exactly why there’s no need for feminism any more and the word should be banned.
Obvi.
Ah. I was thinking MRAs. But OF COURSE I knew that word would draw voters out of the woodwork.
This whole thing is idiotic; some people seem to be allergic to the word “feminism”, something I have known for a long time, but why would they want to ban the word? Do they think that if the word didn’t exist feminists would also cease to exist?
Opinion piece in Australia’s national broadcaster: Let’s ban Time Magazine from saying ‘feminist’.