Time Magazine Apologizes For Including 'Feminist' In 2015 Word Banishment Poll

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Christina H. Sommers ‏@CHSommers

TIME caved to pressure. Has stopped poll on most cringe-inducing word because "feminist" was winning by a landslide.


http://time.com/3576870/worst-words-poll-2014/ …

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Editor’s Note:
TIME apologizes for the execution of this poll; the word ‘feminist’ should not have been included in a list of words to ban. While we meant to invite debate about some ways the word was used this year, that nuance was lost, and we regret that its inclusion has become a distraction from the important debate over equality and justice.
–Nancy Gibbs


Worst Words 2014: Bae, Basic, Literally, Kale, Turnt, Disrupt, Obvi



Time Magazine Apologizes For Including 'Feminist' In 2015 Word Banishment Poll

 

[WLDB]

Having a poll on whether any word at all should be banned is stupid.

 

[Walter]

Wusses.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

So much for freedom of the press for A) having a poll to BAN a word (read censorship) and B) removing a poll once an unsatisfactory word was chosen and C) apologizing for it. C would only have been acceptable if TIME was Canadian.