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Warpy

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1. We've got enough banned words here, thanks

Mon Mar 10, 2014, 07:08 PM

Mar 2014

Keep banning words you don't like, we'll have to communicate in smilies.

I've heard "bossy" applied to both sexes. The few times I've heard it applied to women who were doing their jobs, I've spoken up. In spades..

Words matter but banning them on DU is slacktivism. Objecting to them when they're misapplied in real life takes real courage, but it will get you a lot farther.

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Ban Bossy. Words Matter. [View all] sufrommich Mar 2014 OP

We've got enough banned words here, thanks Warpy Mar 2014 #1

Good Lord,did you even bother checking sufrommich Mar 2014 #2

ya. and i want to watch the video. i recognize it so strongly with my two nieces on another side, seabeyond Mar 2014 #3

Interesting and imaginative allegation... LanternWaste Mar 2014 #13

am I going deaf or do those first couple of girls need to enunciate better? Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2014 #4

It's a message little girls hear far to often ismnotwasm Mar 2014 #7

yes, I understand all that. What I am saying is the first two girls in the video sound garbled to me Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2014 #11

I have mercuryblues Mar 2014 #5

Thanks for posting this. redqueen Mar 2014 #6

I don't get it either,it's a program aimed at sufrommich Mar 2014 #8

There are, no doubt, secret infiltrating Girl Scout's trolling DU ismnotwasm Mar 2014 #10

GD is a lost cause IMO with topics like this ismnotwasm Mar 2014 #9

I disagree with this campaign Seeking Serenity Mar 2014 #12