Time Magazine holds poll to ban a word in 2015. "Feminist" leading the poll [Final Update]
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Now, I am ordinarily the person right at the vanguard of telling stuffy linguistic conservatives to get it up 'em....but anyone who uses "totes" and "obvie" in everyday speech, even ironically, should be the first against the wall when the revolution comes. I don't understand what it is, but hearing those arrangements of sound come out of a human mouth makes me want to murder things.Longing said:
I'm not sure which is more shocking. That the sanctity of an internet poll has been violated, or that 4chan would be involved.Vault101 said:
I don't know what to believe anymore!
Is it bad that I say a lot of the words and phrases on that list? Nothing against feminism, but I'm glad that it will be banned rather than the others just so that I can still say "yaaaaas".
Not that the word will actually be banned, anyway. This poll doesn't actually do anything.
Not that the word will actually be banned, anyway. This poll doesn't actually do anything.
In other news, twits are being twats and they think having the right to have their voice heard automatically makes it so that they have something worth listening to. And they are wrong.
Setting aside the inane sociopolitics, I think the exercise is fundamentally a form of pointless griping about language.
Picking the inane sociopolitics back up, I think all this does is further damage the signal to noise ratio on the subject of feminism. So, 'literally', 'good' job on that, whoever.
As to the premise: words and phrases mean things, and they won't stop meaning those things because you don't understand them or just don't like how a particular assemblage of phonemes goes together.
Language evolves. We can keep up, or be left behind.
Picking the inane sociopolitics back up, I think all this does is further damage the signal to noise ratio on the subject of feminism. So, 'literally', 'good' job on that, whoever.
As to the premise: words and phrases mean things, and they won't stop meaning those things because you don't understand them or just don't like how a particular assemblage of phonemes goes together.
Language evolves. We can keep up, or be left behind.
I find this whole thing hysterical, especially how seriously some people are taking it.
Time Magazine has about as much power to ban a word as my dog does. Relax, your words aren't going anywhere.
Unfortunately, I can already see people trying to use this as an example of misogyny or the patriarchy or what have you, claiming that 48% of people (the poll will magically start to represent everyone) are trying to shut down gender studies and feminism.
People take the internet way too seriously...but what the heck, if I'm gonna vote, I vote for "I can't even..." being removed, that phrase annoys the hell out of me.
Time Magazine has about as much power to ban a word as my dog does. Relax, your words aren't going anywhere.
Unfortunately, I can already see people trying to use this as an example of misogyny or the patriarchy or what have you, claiming that 48% of people (the poll will magically start to represent everyone) are trying to shut down gender studies and feminism.
People take the internet way too seriously...but what the heck, if I'm gonna vote, I vote for "I can't even..." being removed, that phrase annoys the hell out of me.
I think the whole thing is to be taken in a lighthearted tone, almost as if its a joke, same with all the other expressions (no one is banning anything and they arent doing a petition to do so).MysticSlayer said:
I also think their point is that a lot of people use these words when there are better words to pick from at the given moment, following their reason to include feminist on the list (having celebrities state if they are feminist or not) maybe they would prefer to have them state that they are either A, B, C, etc... instead of just saying if they are or not X. No one ever asks if they are fighting for women rights, equality, or male rights, those are three very different things and the buzzword is just one.
Pfft. I'm surprised it wasn't "Gamer".
Because as well all know, gamers are over.
EDIT: If I had to vote on a word ban, it'd either be "entitle" or "totes".
Because as well all know, gamers are over.
EDIT: If I had to vote on a word ban, it'd either be "entitle" or "totes".
I'm honestly surprised that people are so wont to chalk this up to recent events. Despite widespread approval for what the term is supposed to represent, the label itself has been perceived to have negative connotations (and unpopular as consequence) for a long time now. Seriously, a quick search yielded a WMST-L discussion on people's aversion to the label dating back to Oct 1993, 21 years ago. Again though, there's a very consistent trend here. People generally agree with the term's intended meaning, they just don't think the term (or perhaps the people utilizing it) represents that and disavow the label as consequence.
So, from what I gather so far, a number of people seem to have the opinion of the following:
"I want equality for everyone regardless of what gender they are!"
"Unless they have a different opinion than me, then they're intellectually inferior to me!".
Yeah, I don't think you're capable of achieving equality of gender if you can't accept people having different opinions on things without insulting them. Especially something as trivial as a dumb poll which is intended to be humour.
"I want equality for everyone regardless of what gender they are!"
"Unless they have a different opinion than me, then they're intellectually inferior to me!".
Yeah, I don't think you're capable of achieving equality of gender if you can't accept people having different opinions on things without insulting them. Especially something as trivial as a dumb poll which is intended to be humour.
Well, you know, 4chan can't be called what it is. An anonymous image board with several sub-boards dedicated to different subjects. It's the boogyman, it's all that's wrong with the internet.Leon Declis said:
OT: I didn't even know Time did this. Why is feminist appearing there now? Has it ever been really popular?
I know it's not popular on the internet for various reasons. But has it ever been popular? At uni there was a women's studies class that was one of those senior credit things where several people took it. I never heard a single good thing about the subject matter. And that was supposed to be dealing with feminism and feminist issues.
I guess it's like others have said. People are starting to associate the word with unpleasantness.