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Thursday, January 19, 2012

Why can't it be called 'Girlcott'?

Boycott just sounds too much like a Speed Racer bed that leaves my shins hanging out with my feet above the floor. Girlcott, however could be some sort of canopied four poster, an alluring hybrid fruit, or a way to silently and politely protest. Boys are rarely silent or polite. Girls are, so I'm now boycotting the word 'boycott' and now replacing it with 'girlcott'.

 I was thinking of girlcotting the entertainment industry the other day. I entertained grand daydreams of ad execs and major motion picture board members grovelling at my feet, begging me to shell out my hard earned cash to view their celluloid grade crack. I denied them with a slap to the face. Then I remembered that I hadn't actually paid to go see a movie since "the Xpendables",(I'd like my money back on that one.). So, I've already been girlcotting the industry by being a broke ass. It's great to actually have pride in something that comes from being utterly poor.

 I'll continue to girlcott the industry, although I do have a few coins in the pocket these days.

 What are you girlcotting?

19 comments:

  1. Girlcott?? GIRLcott?? hahaha That's actually really funny...

    I girlcott Walmart. I think they are trying to take over the world and I refuse to contribute to it. lol

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    1. Oh, I enjoy a bit of the funny. And I abhor Walmart also. I should girlcott it as well. From this point on, I shall only refer to companies I girlcott as the wrong name, with juxtaposed consonants. You shall not see me grace Malwart's doors, either.

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  2. i never thought so seriously about the word boycott before

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    1. It is both a blessing and a curse to think so seriously upon these little trifling things we call 'words'.

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  3. I'm girlcotting the word girlcott because boycott was originally named after a man called Boycott. Let us not deny our history here! Though I suppose I too am technically boycotting the entertainment industry by being a poorfag.

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    1. Thanks for the lesson. I almost remember being taught that in school, but the teacher wasn't as half as cool as you are.

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    2. Well Wikipedia taught me and I just love being a pedantic asshole. I actually had no clue where the word came from.

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    3. Nothing wrong with either. Learning from the great source of Wikipedia, or being pedantic. Now I have to look that one up. Thanks.

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    4. Pedantry is basically an obsession with being right. If I think someone is wrong about something I have to try and point out their mistakes. There's probably a different word for being obsessed with it though.

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  4. Needs to be included in dictionaries.

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    1. I agree. Wonder if a picture would be included. If so, what would it be?

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    1. Hehe, Unisex! Now where did I leave my unicorn?

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  6. I'd never really thought of boycott as a masculine...same with history I guess, I don't tend to analyze words that are ubiquitous...probably a flaw.

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    1. Femininity in demonstration words appeals to me in that there is more to gain from honey than vinegar.

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  7. I don't boycott or girlcott.

    I loudly proclaim with intimidating, violent intent that this brand or that brand should be either ignored or flat-out fatwa'd.

    Usually to the tune of "FUCK THAT BRAND, THIS RESTAURANT SUCKS ASS, FUCKING FIREBOMB THIS PLACE!"

    Seriously. Currently my rage has been pointed solely at Ruby's Dinette, an overpriced crapfest in the heart of LAX.

    Yeah, fuck a Ruby's Dinette. Gay porno star ROTC jackhammer fuck 'em.

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    1. I shall join you then. "Ruby's Dinette is a great place to eat insect parts with your sandwich!". I guess I could have thrown in a curse word or two, but I've been girlcotting them to enrich my vocabulary.

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  8. The Oxford English Dictionary informs us that "Boycott" came into the language because it was "the name of Captain Charles C. Boycott (1832–97), a land agent in Ireland, who was a prominent early recipient of such treatment (with the encouragement of the Irish Land League) in the autumn of 1880."

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