If you've been keeping up to date with the news – the actual news, not the really fun but oh so important stuff we bring you here at heat – you'll know there's a bit of un uprising going on over in Essex.
Two women have launched a campaign to remove the term 'Essex girl' from the Oxford English Dictionary.
Juliet Thomas and Natasha Sawkins are not happy with the 'rude and stereotypical' definition and want their fellow Essex women to sign their petition and proudly post the hashtag #IAmAnEssexGirl once they have done so, in order to redefine the meaning of the phrase.
And to be fair to the lovely women of Essex, the dictionary definition is actually really offensive.
It reads: "Essex girl n. [after Essex man n.] Brit. Derogatory a contemptuous term applied to a type of young woman, supposedly to be found in and around Essex, and variously characterized as an unintelligent, promiscuous, and materialistic."
The guys over at Collins also added: "devoid of taste."
Bit harsh.
The campaign has received backing from a host of Essex girls wanting to change the definition, and even The Only Way Is Essex stars are getting behind it.
Former TOWIE star Grace Andrews is "100 million per cent" behind the motion, according to the BBC.
And now, possibly the ULTIMATE Essex woman, Gemma Collins has stepped up to have her say.
In an interview with Sky News, Gemma shared her opinions on the topic and explained how the dictionary definition of an Essex girl is outdated.
"It was all about stilettos…the really blonde hair and all the fakeness, and that's fine if you want to be like that but there's also another side to Essex as well. You can’t just stereotype the whole of Essex."
Gemma also revealed she thinks the stereotype came from the eighties: "Back in the day it was all a joke about the girl in the white stilettos dancing around her handbag in a nightclub".
The reality TV star says that Essex girls have "evolved" and they're now buying Chanel bags.
Gemma also suggested the definition should be changed rather than removed entirely, and offered up this alternative: "An Essex girl is smart, sassy, fun and striving hard in life like everyone else."
PREACH.
We could be seeing Gemma's definition in our Oxford English Dictionary soon as a dictionary spokeswoman (yes, that's a thing) told the BBC: "Nothing is ever taken out of the OED…Definitions can change but an entry will never come out."
In the meantime, keep doing you Gems.
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