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- noun significant figures in the
feminism movements. - noun influential
women .
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One of the judges wrote this on Slate. com: The Most Outrageous category is tricky; we never agree whether it's the word itself that's outrageous (typically for having some vulgar element, as in 2003's winner, cliterati, for 'prominent feminists') or the concept (as with 2002's neuticles, 'false testicles for neutered pets').
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Emily Dubberley, Founder of cliterati and Dubberly
Archive 2003-12-28 2003
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Emily Dubberley, Founder of cliterati and Dubberly
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Emily Dubberley, Founder of cliterati and Dubberly
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Emily Dubberley, Founder of cliterati and Dubberly
Review 2003: What was the best thing which happened to you in 2003? 2003
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Emily Dubberley, Founder of cliterati and Dubberly
Archive 2003-12-28 2003
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Emily Dubberley, Founder of cliterati and Dubberly
Archive 2003-12-21 2003
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Emily Dubberley, Founder of cliterati and Dubberly
Archive 2003-12-28 2003
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Emily Dubberley, Founder of cliterati and Dubberly
Review 2003: What was the best thing which happened to you in 2003? 2003
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Emily Dubberley, Founder of cliterati and Dubberly
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BrainyBabe commented on the word cliterati
A play on literati, coined in the 1990s? It was used loosely of lipstick lesbians within the chattering classes, i.e. publishing, media, politics, PR, marketing....people paid to go to parties. Retroactively, I suppose it could be applied between the wars to Vita Sackville-West and the Americans in Paris.
December 23, 2008
reesetee commented on the word cliterati
I'd really rather it weren't applied to anything or anyone.
December 23, 2008
BrainyBabe commented on the word cliterati
I assume it was coined after glitterati (or gliterati), celebrity writers.
December 24, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word cliterati
It probably was, but it can be offensive (I think was reesetee's point)... :)
December 24, 2008
BrainyBabe commented on the word cliterati
Oh. I never heard it used in a disparaging way, more with respect and awe. "Sisters are doin' it for themselves", climbing the greasy pole of corporate and literary success. Glitterati definitely has a hint of the dismissive, mwah mwah darling, must dash, got to see my ghostwriter.
December 24, 2008
reesetee commented on the word cliterati
Yes, c_b, that's what I meant. If you define it as it's defined below, it's likely to be considered offensive. I've seen it used in non-disparaging ways, but I'm just not keen on the coinage; that's all. :-)
December 24, 2008
BrainyBabe commented on the word cliterati
No offense meant. Reclaim the streets, and the gutters and margins.
December 24, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word cliterati
No offense taken, BB. :) There have been some users in the past who brandish certain words about in an effort to get a ... let's just say a response from other users... It is more than clear you are not doing that, but I'm one of the big, loud, obnoxious people guilty of speaking up before things get out of hand. I think reesetee is too. (maybe why we get along so well, rt? :)
Reclaim the streets! Gluppit the prawling strangles! That's how I roll!! I like cheese!
December 24, 2008
BrainyBabe commented on the word cliterati
That's all right then....
December 24, 2008
reesetee commented on the word cliterati
Certainly, BB! No offense taken. :-)
C_b: Did you just call me a big, loud, obnoxious person while simultaneously telling me that we get along well?
*rereads cb's comment*
Yes. Yes you did.
*slumping off in existential despair*
December 24, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word cliterati
Shit. I guess I did. *stunned*
*slaps self upside the head with a stuffed fish*
*more stunned*
December 24, 2008
reesetee commented on the word cliterati
*laughs at c_b's stunnedness*
Okay, I feel better now. :-)
December 24, 2008
sionnach commented on the word cliterati
See what I mean about the delightful smorgasbrod that is Wordie? Even on what might seem to be an unpromising word page, you get the charming slapstick of c_b and r_t, yukking it up for our amusement.
I suppose I might as well confess to my chaste intellectual crush on BB right here and now, and get it out of the way.
December 24, 2008
reesetee commented on the word cliterati
*grabs c_b's stuffed fish and slaps sionnach--ever so gently--upside the head*
December 24, 2008
dontcry commented on the word cliterati
*feeling hungry with all this talk about stuffed fish*
December 24, 2008
BrainyBabe commented on the word cliterati
When I see others playing with large stuffed objects, I tend to get out of the way. I do see the virtues of the smorgasbord metaphor, though. I'm getting hungry too.
December 24, 2008