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Is it really necessary to include "fuck" in the name? It strikes me as completely unnecessary and alienating to a lot of people.

Try these instead:

- Ignore Black Friday

- Forget Black Friday

- Buy Nothing Black Friday

etc.

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"Black Friday" is an offensive phrase to me. It's unnecessary and alienating to me; the very concept reminds me that I am trapped in a consumerist hell. On the other hand, fucking is quite natural, quite reasonable, happens all the time in healthy societies, and is part of the backbone of human existence,

Try these instead:

* Fuck consumerism

* Fuck malls

* Fuck sale pricing

And so on.

Or, you know, some people find Black Friday, consumerism, and malls vulgar and off-putting, and find an overuse of expletives equally vulgar.

Saying fuck doesn't harm anyone, fetishized consumer culture does.

I came to say the exact same thing. I say fuck in my life a lot but I feel that here it is not really adding anything, I don't feel shocked when I see it I just feel irritated. A recent blog post that was posted here recently with fuck in the title, I skipped over it immediately. The only time I can think of that using the word fuck actually made me look more favorable on something was https://gofuckingdoit.com/.

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