I wont boycott...
Why must be boycott, not girl-cott leh ? 
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The word boycott entered the
English language during the Irish "Land War" and is
derived from the name of Captain Charles Boycott,
the land agent of an absentee landlord, Lord
Erne, who lived in Lough Mask House, near Ballinrobe in County
Mayo, Ireland, who was subject
to social ostracism organized
by the Irish Land
League in 1880. As harvests had been poor that year, Lord
Erne offered his tenants a ten percent reduction in their rents. In
September of that year, protesting tenants demanded a twenty five
percent reduction, which Lord Erne refused. Boycott then attempted
to evict eleven tenants from the land. Charles
Stewart Parnell, in a speech in Ennis prior to the
events in Lough Mask, proposed that when dealing with tenants who
take farms where another tenant was evicted, rather than resorting
to violence, everyone in the locality should shun them. While
Parnell's speech did not refer to land agents or landlords, the
tactic was first applied to Boycott when the alarm was raised about
the evictions. Despite the short-term economic hardship to those
undertaking this action, Boycott soon found himself isolated — his
workers stopped work in the fields and stables, as well as in his
house. Local businessmen stopped trading with him, and the local
postman refused to deliver mail.[1]
The concerted action taken against him meant that Boycott was
unable to hire anyone to harvestthe crops in his
charge. Eventually 50 Orangemen from Cavan and Monaghan volunteered
to do the work. They were escorted to and from Claremorris by
one thousand policemen and
soldiers, despite the fact that the local Land League leaders had
said that there would be no violence from them, and in fact no
violence materialized.[2] This
protection ended up costing far more than the harvest was worth.
After the harvest, the "boycott" was successfully continued. Within
weeks Boycott's name was everywhere. It was used
by The Times in
November 1880 as a term for organized isolation. According to an
account in the book “The Fall of Feudalism in Ireland” byMichael Davitt,
the term was promoted by Fr. John O'Malley of County Mayo to
"signify ostracism applied to a landlord or agent like
Boycott". The Times first reported on November
20, 1880: “The people of New Pallas have resolved to 'boycott' them
and refused to supply them with food or drink.” The Daily
News wrote on December 13, 1880: “Already the
stoutest-hearted are yielding on every side to the dread of being
'Boycotted'.” By January of the following year, the word was being
used figuratively: "Dame Nature arose.... She 'Boycotted' London
from Kew to Mile End" (The Spectator, January 22, 1881).
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Girlcott is a neologism
that combines "girl" and "boycott" to focus on strictly female
boycotts. The term was coined in 1968 by Americantrack star
Lacey O'Neal during the 1968 Summer
Olympics in Mexico City, in the
context of protests by
male African
American athletes. Speaking for black women athletes, she
advised that the group would not "girlcott" the Olympic Games,
because female athletes were still focused on being recognized. It
also appeared in Time magazine
in 1970, and was later used by retired tennis player Billie Jean
Kingin reference to Wimbledon,
to emphasize her argument regarding equal play for women
players.
The term girlcott was revived in 2005 by a group of
young women in Allegheny
County, Pennsylvania protesting what they deemed sexist
and degrading T-shirt
slogans on Abercrombie
& Fitch merchandise.[3]
