The act of abstaining from using, buying or dealing with as a means of protest, when done by a female. Usually, but not exclusively done around "women's" issues.
We're totally girlcotting Ralph Lauren for their firing of that photoshopped model.
To support businesses and organizations that are supportive of equal rights for all - the positive opposite of a boycott. A girlcott rewards good behavior whereas a boycott punishes bad behavior.
Let's girlcott the companies and organizations that have pulled out of North Carolina in support of trans-rights.
A boycott that is so short lived, that it really isn't a boycott at all. To abstain from buying or using, or dealing with for a very very short time frame
The opposite of a boycott; where rather than avoiding or excluding someone, it involves actively engaging with them (often in a compelling or coercive manner) with the intent of ensuring they become more like you. This approach could be used as a form of punishment or for other strategic purposes.
We girlcotted that guy after he madefun of our friend
A female euphemism to the word boycott. It means to abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion.
Although if the women organizations that used this term had any sense, they'd realize that 1) they're being just as sexist by using such wording and 2) the word boycott was coined after people protested Englishman Charles C. Boycott, and has nothing to do with gender relations.
The Women & Girls Foundation decided to "girl-cott" the company after they found their products to be offensive towards women.
Brought to public attention by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in the book on the fall of Richard Nixon, All The President’s Men, ratfucker was Nixon’s term for a political operative who sows chaos among opponents; an agent provocateur. It is thought to have originated among campus political rivalries at USC, and seems to have some usage in the US military.
Along with Nixon’s other ratfuckers, Roger Stone caused fights at otherwise peaceful Democratic Party protests to generate a false narrative that the Democrats were violent and dangerous.