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“Lhe scandal created a spark: a historic “girlcott” of the Angoulême Festival by comic book authors”, headlined with fanfare Humanity on November 16, which points out that the word was first used in 1891, in California. Except that the “girlcott” is in nothing “historical”, because this neologism is a masterful misinterpretation. Let’s quickly explain the substance of the matter: it is a militant action by several associations and unions from the world of comics refusing to participate in the Angoulême Festival. The action in question intends to denounce pell-mell “ [les] gender-based and sexual violence”, [la] “ autarkic governance, [le] “ widespread contempt for workers [sic]including volunteers, [l’]“ mercantile exploitation”, [le] “ validism”, and so on. ».
Just that. But, horror, “boycott” accommodates “boy”. Impossible, subsequently, for “ladies and all gender minorities within the comics world [de nouveau sic] “, to assume such an outrageously testosterone-inducing term. We don’t boycott, we girlcott. The patriarchy is shaking, and so is the French language. If the movement had called for a boycott, the story would have ended there. Except that feminists have decided to boycott the boycott.
And let’s remind our comic book revolutionaries that they have stayed in their bubble for too long: the boycott is not macho and in no way refers to an action carried out by “boys”. It is taken from the name of the British Charles Cunningham Boycott, steward of County Mayo, Ireland, at the end of the 19th century.e century.
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In 1879, whereas he was attempting to boost taxes, Irish peasants, led by the Agrarian League, organized his whole isolation: nobody spoke to him, labored or traded with him – even the postman refused to offer him his mail.
This resistance technique is then referred to as “boycott” by the press throughout the Channel, and the time period enters widespread parlance. Double disillusionment for our activists: Charles Boycott was a person (white and bearded, the ultimate boss of the patriarchy), and their semantic confusion is barely ephemeral foam, when the fiscal fed-up crosses the centuries.
https://www.lepoint.fr/editos-du-point/le-mot-de-la-semaine-girlcott-29-11-2025-2604307_32.php