{"id":94122,"date":"2016-11-17T14:03:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T22:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/?p=94122"},"modified":"2016-11-17T14:08:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T22:08:53","slug":"tweet-changes-definition-of-femininity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/tweet-changes-definition-of-femininity\/","title":{"rendered":"It Took One Tweet to Change the Definition of Femininity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talk about a #girlboss. It <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/lifestyle\/a8295117\/ali-segel-tweet-merriam-webster-femininity-definition\/\" target=\"_blank\">only took one tweet<\/a> from writer, Alison Segel, to prompt Merriam-Webster to change their sexist example sentence of the word femininity.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">Uhhhhh ???? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JDfeIZqVVf\">pic.twitter.com\/JDfeIZqVVf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ali Segel (@OnlineAlison) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OnlineAlison\/status\/798608674151243776\">November 15, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>She first came across this definition when one\u00a0woman submitted a screenshot of it for Segel&#8217;s zine. Afterwards, Segel\u00a0decided to tweet\u00a0out\u00a0the example sentence, which she thought was &#8220;nuts,&#8221; and the tweet\u00a0quickly gained traction as users started tagging Merriam-Webster in response to the tweet. They eventually responded:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OnlineAlison\">@OnlineAlison<\/a> AND IT&#8217;S GONE. Oof. Sorry about that. \u2014 Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MerriamWebster\/status\/798624023508680704\">November 15, 2016<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts on how Merriam-Webster responded? Weigh in on the comments below!<\/p>\n<p>xx, The FabFitFun Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":"Talk about a #girlboss. It only took one tweet from writer, Alison Segel, to prompt ...","author":1557554,"featured_media":94154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[185],"tags":[],"thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/17140201\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-17-at-2.01.32-PM-660x400.jpg","thumbnail_url_middle_card":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/17140201\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-17-at-2.01.32-PM.jpg","formated_date":"November 17, 2016","category_name":"News","category_icon":"https:\/\/d3vodd1ws13xud.cloudfront.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10113842\/news.svg","author_name":"","trending":false,"sponsored":false,"random_color":"#b3c3ef","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1557554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}