The term "girlcott" was revived in 2005 by the Women and Girls Foundation in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania against Abercrombie & Fitch. The term was later used by retired tennis player Billie Jean King in 1999 in reference to Wimbledon, while discussing equal pay for women players. The term was coined in 1968 by American Lacey O'Neal during the 1968 Summer Olympics in the context of protests by male African American athletes. Girlcott, a pun on "boycott", is a boycott intended to focus on the rights or actions of women. She 'Boycotted' London from Kew to Mile End.".
The Times first reported on November 20, 1880: "The people of New Pallas have resolved to 'boycott' them and refused to supply them with food or drink." The Daily News wrote on December 13, 1880: "Already the stoutest-hearted are yielding on every side to the dread of being 'Boycotted'." By January of the following year, the word was being used figuratively: "Dame Nature arose. John O'Malley of County Mayo to "signify ostracism applied to a landlord or agent like Boycott". According to an account in the book The Fall of Feudalism in Ireland by Michael Davitt, the term was promoted by Fr. The Irish author, George Moore, reported: 'Like a comet the verb 'boycott' appeared.' It was used by The Times in November 1880 as a term for organized isolation. The New-York Tribune reporter, James Redpath, first wrote of the boycott in the international press.
After the harvest, the "boycott" was successfully continued and soon the new word was everywhere. The concerted action taken against him meant that Boycott was unable to hire anyone to harvest his crops in his charge. Local businessmen stopped trading with him, and the local postman refused to deliver mail. Despite the short-term economic hardship to those undertaking this action, Boycott soon found himself isolated – his workers stopped work in the fields and stables, as well as in his house. While Parnell's speech did not refer to land agents or landlords, the tactic was first applied to Boycott when the alarm was raised about the evictions. Charles Stewart Parnell, the Irish leader, proposed that when dealing with tenants who take farms where another tenant was evicted, rather than resorting to violence, everyone in the locality should shun them. Boycott then attempted to evict eleven tenants from the land. In September of that year, protesting tenants demanded a twenty-five percent reduction, which Lord Erne refused. As harvests had been poor that year, Lord Erne offered his tenants a ten percent reduction in their rents. Captain Boycott was the target of social ostracism organized by the Irish Land League in 1880. The word boycott entered the English language during the Irish " Land War" and derives from Captain Charles Boycott, the land agent of an absentee landlord, Lord Erne, who lived in County Mayo, Ireland. Protesters advocating boycott of KFC due to animal welfare concerns