The magazine’s fourth annual poll of words that should be banned in the new year went live on Wednesday morning. Anyone can vote for one of the 15 words that Time suggests we should be most sick of. Because free speech still exists in America (and terminology comes and goes), it might seem a little odd to put words on the chopping block. So what exactly, according to Time, makes a word worthy of getting banned? “If you hear that word one more time, you will definitely cringe. You may exhale pointedly. And you might even seek out the nearest pair of chopsticks and thrust them through your own eardrums like straws through plastic lids,” wrote Time correspondent Katy Steinmetz. “You have nothing against feminism itself, but when did it become a thing that every celebrity had to state their position on whether this word applies to them, like some politician declaring a party?” Steinmetz wrote of the decision to include the word in the poll. “Let’s stick to the issues and quit throwing this label around like ticker tape at a Susan B. Anthony parade.” takepart/article/2014/11/12/time-backlash-ban-word-feminist?cmpid=tpdaily-eml-2014-11-12
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 04:26:10 +0000