accidental feminist » vocabulary http://accidentalfeminist.com Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:31:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 success http://accidentalfeminist.com/2009/11/24/success/ http://accidentalfeminist.com/2009/11/24/success/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:07:45 +0000 Rachel http://accidentalfeminist.com/?p=763 Bassie, while watching an ad for the re-release of Sleeping Beauty: “Mom, you know what I don’t like? When they take a line that a character said in a movie and recut it so it sounds like the character is saying it about the movie. Like, ‘This is so great!”, like they think the movie is great.”

Me: “Oh, you don’t like that?”

Bassie: “No. It’s exploiting the movie!”

Yeah, that’s right, my eight year old daughter uses the word “exploiting” without prompting.

And that’s why you talk to them like they’re real people and not babies. Because otherwise she might have said something stupid, like “It’s using the movie for something that it was not meant to be used for.”

Pu-lease. We must be nothing if not precise.

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