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"Girls rule" is very anodyne in my opinion, too. Women and girls definitely struggle with a lot of issues of self-worth, what's wrong with trying to assuage that?
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Honestly? I don't think it implies supremacy at all and only a narrow reading of "rule" as "reign over all others" gets you there. Most people say "xxx rules" and they certainly don't mean that thing is the best or only good thing. They mean it's cool and I'd be willing to bet that most people would accept this meaning.
Narrow readings are not just pedantic and nor do they only contrive a problem with this, it's a useless fight because this language doesn't hurt 99% of men. If you tried to introduce another man to the cause and used this as an example, I don't think most would even bat an eye and that makes it seem like the entire spectrum of issues is overblown (not that that's fair). In essence, pearl-clutching over something that doesn't really matter and most people won't care about is negative effort, it does more to harm an incipient movement imo.
I also don't really agree that boys rule would cause that much of a stir outside of a similar 1% of women.
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