“Offensive” Term “Man Cave” Among List Of 2012′s Banned Phrases

4:15 pm, December 31st | by Amy Tennery

Of all the year-end, round-up-y traditions, Lake Superior State University’s annual “List Of Banished Words” is among the most satisfying.

Do you hate the terms “baby bump,” “shared sacrifice” and “the new normal?” Good! Because Lake Superior State University just banned them for you. You’re welcome.

The list is compiled from nominations, according to CNN, which tracked down one guy who nominated a rather dude-friendly term this year. Well, at least we thought it was dude friendly:

David Hollis from Hubbardsville, New York, insisted that not all men are enamored with the concept of the traditional man cave.

“It is not just overused, it is offensive to we males who do not wish to hunker (another awful word, often misused) down in a room filled with stuffed animal heads, an unnecessarily large flat-screen TV and Hooters memorabilia,” he said. “Not every man wants a recliner the size of a 1941 Packard that has a cooler in each arm and a holster for the remote. So please, assign ‘man cave’ to the lexicographic scrap heap where it so rightly belongs.”

You hear? No more “man cave.” To class things up a little, I say we start calling them “gentlemen nooks.”

TAGS: banned words | man cave

Anonymous

Lake Superior has been doing this for many years and they seem to get it right every time. I wish someone would really do away with baby bump it’s offensive and makes the baby out to be an object not a human. http://www.freep.com/videonetwork/1354185888001/Amazing-baby-bump-top-list-of-banished-words-and-phrases-for-2012
Anonymous

““It is not just overused, it is offensive to we males who do not wish
to hunker (another awful word, often misused) down in a room filled
with stuffed animal heads, an unnecessarily large flat-screen TV and
Hooters memorabilia,” he said. “Not every man wants a recliner the size
of a 1941 Packard that has a cooler in each arm and a holster for the
remote. So please, assign ‘man cave’ to the lexicographic scrap heap
where it so rightly belongs.”

Well go upstairs and sit on your mom’s plastic covered couch Mary.
We’ll be down here playing air hockey and watching the game.
brandedmojo

Puhhhleeeeze! EVERY man needs a man cave. In every year of MAN’s existence he’s needed some space to get away from his woman
Greenjack

David Hollis from Hubbardsville, please hang up your testicles and exit the male species, your licence to procreate has just been revoked.
Relmneiko

For a moment there I thought “man cave” was a euphemism for the anus. I was like, “Gee, I guess I’m going to have to stick with boy pussy then”. Ha.
Tyler

I dislike the term mancave I prefer to think of my “mancave” as being the world. Yeah I do agree a man needs to get away from his woman and visa versa but I’d rather go into the woods go fishing or maybe even go into a city just drive around, I like to do things without having to have some real specific reason. I like to travel and see stuff. I wouldn’t buy that couch but it does sound kind of appealing when you describe it. Honestly I don’t particularly enjoy the whole man cave affect with the “Hooters memorabilia” and I have never been one to try and be all macho.

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