Which Word Should Be Banned in 2015? Vote Now!
If you hear that word one more time, you will definitely cringe. You may exhale pointedly. And you might even seek out the nearest the…So, Time was stupid enough to put “feminist” on its list of candidates for this annual poll. And now, in a move that ought shock exactly nobody, 4chan is spamming the vote. Which will work, because even if a counter-campaign forms, there’s no obvious vote for them to rally around. (I mean, “bossy” is the right one, but it’s not going to happen, at least, not in numbers to stop 4chan spamming.
Which, frankly, wonderful. Because I guarantee you that there is exactly nobody at Time who is relishing publishing that article. Katy Steinmetz, the writer who does this poll, is currently thinking, “oh shit, I was sure one of the dumb pieces of slang that win every year was going to take it and I could see out 2014 writing a fluff piece about the word ‘bae,’ and now I’m going to have to write about why people want to ban feminism.” Her editors are thinking “holy fuck, we’re going to get absolutely lambasted for this.” The question of whether to abort the poll or remove “feminist” from the list and ignore all its votes has, I am certain, already been asked.
So I’m voting to ban “feminist,” and encourage everybody to do the same. Because I want to see Time try to wriggle out of their own fucking idiocy in thinking it was remotely a good idea for a major media organization to run an online poll about whether to ban the word “feminist,” as if we haven’t known what happens with online polls since Hank the Angry Dwarf was voted the most beautiful person of 1998. I want to see them try to figure out how to write an article that explains how a bunch of misogynistic terrorists want to ban the word “feminist.”
It’s rare to see this pristine a complete fuckup.