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- verb informal, of women To
boycott .
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Examples
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If you're not familiar with the expression, a girlcott is the opposite of a boycott.
girlcott costco 2005
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If you're not familiar with the expression, a girlcott is the opposite of a boycott.
Archive 2005-07-01 2005
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A group of teenage girls from Pennsylvania organized their so-called girlcott in response to these T-shirts.
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And I'm going to start googling and asking my Chilean friends to find out what else I can "girlcott" to help Chile.
Let's Girlcott Chile: Buy Products To Help Their Economy 2010
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I wrote a post about how, rather than simply sending donations, we might start looking for products to buy that will help Chileans rebuild their economy after the devastating earthquake (s) -- I dubbed this a "girlcott".
Julia Moulden: New Radical Revolution: 10 World-Changing Ideas 2010
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And I'm going to start googling and asking my Chilean friends to find out what else I can "girlcott" to help Chile.
Julia Moulden: Let's Girlcott Chile: Buy Products To Help Their Economy 2010
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I wrote a post about how, rather than simply sending donations, we might start looking for products to buy that will help Chileans rebuild their economy after the devastating earthquake (s) -- I dubbed this a "girlcott".
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The local teen organizers of a "girlcott" that led Abercrombie & Fitch to pull two T-shirts from its shelves will visit the company's headquarters today to pitch their own designs.
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Ironically, Abercrombie executives got their you-know-whats handed to them by a pack of feminist-minded twelve to seventeen year olds in the Girls as Grantmakers program in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, who staged a boycott (or "girlcott," as they put it) of the tee shirts and landed on the Today Show discussing Abercrombie's misogynistic marketing with Katie Couric.
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Let me also spread the word on what Professor Black Woman has called for a "girlcott" of Seal Press books: Please read this important post!
Blog About Congo Rape Epidemic Today! Anxious Black Woman 2008
whichbe commented on the word girlcott
(fr. Wordspy, noun.) A boycott that includes only female participants.
May 14, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word girlcott
Which, given the primary role women have in economic growth, would be... uhh... all boycotts? ;)
May 15, 2008
alexz commented on the word girlcott
spotted this in my news feeds.
February 17, 2016