Time Apologizes for Suggesting 'Feminist' Should be Banned
When Time asked readers to vote on words and/or phrases that should be banned in 2015, we immediately wondered why “feminist” was included. Feminism is a good thing, last time we checked. Making matters worse, “feminist” was leading in Time’s poll. The magazine has now admitted that maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to include the word.
Nancy Gibbs, editor of Time, posted the following apology on Time’s voting page:
Time apologizes for the execution of this poll; the word ‘feminist’ should not have been included in a list of words to ban.
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