In the meantime we must reclaim the word honour, by boycotting it when discussing violence against women driven by the perpetrators' notion of shame.
It has long had to worry about whether to add legitimacy to a sham electoral process by taking part, or risk further marginalisation by boycotting it.
The Times forbids its employees from attending; in 2011, Dean Baquet, then the paper's Washington, D.C., bureau chief, explained the boycott by saying, "It just feels like it sends the wrong signal to our readers and viewers, like we are all in it together and it is all a game".
At a Whole Foods store in midtown Atlanta on Thursday, two shoppers loading groceries into a green Volvo, Carl and Sharon Gentry, said they had not heard of the boycott until asked about it by a reporter.
"I call it boycott by divine intervention.
YouTube responded to the ad boycott by saying it would give brands more control over where their ads appeared.
Do they want to kill it by boycotting or do they want to legitimise it by electing a Serb mayor?" Thaçi's counterpart in Belgrade, Ivica Dačić, warned ethnic Serbs in North Mitrovica to vote "unless they want the city to be led by an Albanian".
Italy fielded a team of substitutes against Croatia because of a boycott by its experienced stars.
In an era when the ICC has been criticised as a western plot, even though it is boycotted by the US, it is worth remembering that the idea was propagated and sustained by a leader from a developing country who was committed to international law.
By boycotting parliament, it closed most of the winter session, until it won the inquiry into graft that it had demanded.
Although the fans' group has not called for a total boycott by Bristol City fans, it said a stand had to be taken as a "matter of principle" and described Wednesday's ticket pricing policy as "unreasonable".
