A new word-discouragement campaign at Duke University says that phrases such as “man up” use offensive gender-stereotypes.
So? What’ll they do if you say it? Hit you like a girl?
A new word-discouragement campaign at Duke University says that phrases such as “man up” use offensive gender-stereotypes.
So? What’ll they do if you say it? Hit you like a girl?
So? What’ll they do if you say it? Hit you like a girl?
Probably require you to take a class from one of the eighty-eight clowns who took out the full-page ad declaring that the lacrosse players were guilty of rape, and have never so much as apologized.
Obviously, they would be forced to put up their dukes.
Alternate & ambiguous phrases that are okay:
“Grow a pair!” (Of what? Parakeets?)
“Buck up!” (You should see dictionary . reference . com’s list for this one.)
“Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis!” (Basically, stop sucking!)
“What’ll they do if you say it?”
Probably bust out crying.
Wait…”bust out”…that’s sexist too.
These nimrods should be forced to have “participated in a word-discouragement campaign” on their resumes forever.
@4 Damncat: “bust out crying” = crying while breasts exposed. (Hopefully, with some dynamic up-down motion from a real hefty boo-hoo.)
Of course, the same could be said for “bust out laughing.”