Words that should be banned from Internet and other discussions
Could we take the words "jock" and "nerd" and kill them with fire? Please? The relentless obsession, found all over Internet, with those incredibly narrow and over-simplified (US) highschool stereotypes and with shoving every person in the world in those boxes has gotten really, really annoying. It's almost like the old "virgin vs whore" dichotomy.
Another word that needs to die a quick and painful death is "alpha" used to denote anything but the first letter of the Greek alphabet. (Or the code name of the Dollhouse character.) Except in the context of a conversation about actual wolf packs, or Teen Wolf. If I hear "an alpha" used for non-werewolf person, or "alpha" in conjuction with "male" once more time, I think I might go rabid.