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Stacey Gill is an award-winning journalist and the mastermind behind the humor blog, One Funny Motha . Her work has appeared on such sites as The Huffington Post, Blog Her, The Good Men Project, Mom365 and Mamalode. In 2014 she was named one of the Top 10 Funny Parent Bloggers of the Year by VoiceBoks. Find her on Facebook and Twitter .

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By Stacey Gill • 9 years ago

I have a word TIME could ban

This essay was originally published on The Broad Side.

The furor has finally died down over Time Magazine‘s call to ban the word “feminist” from our vocabulary.

But if TIME is going to insist on tossing perfectly good words from our lexicon, I have a better word for their suggested list of trite and irritating words to ban in 2015.