A graph. Nice touch. Not sure I could do it without reason though. I might have to go with poll results on whether the word "woman" should be changed "womyn", you know, so the word is not an extension of the word "man".
Followed perhaps by a tirade on the failure of the campaign to change the spelling, and blaming such failure on the fact that the dictionary industry is dominated by men, who are repressing the feminist agenda through censorship. Some reference to the fact that when the reporter tried to get in touch with them, they did not return calls, and had to be visited in person to demand an explanation of their refusal to ammend the word. Whereupon the dictionary executive dismissed the petition, citing that only 5 people signed it, and all of them women, and that he could not pander to special interest groups in his sacred duty to document the language as it is actually used.
The reporter, ever persistent, went on to call on the dictionary executive every month for a year, and at the last meeting, realised that she had become known in the industry as the "Monthly Visitor". The old boys club of the dictionary world were laughing at her behind her back, in the most offensive way possible for someone of her beliefs.
It was at that moment that she determined that diplomacy was not working, and that it was time for war. Thoughts of fire quenched only with blood raced through her mind, but she had to be practical, and for that reason launched the boycott. So for their arrogance, the dictionary industry is now shorter by 5 customers, and that number will grow any day now.
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