How do I remove the square brackets at the end of a JS variable name during AJAX calls?

I currently have the following javascript array:

var stuffs = ['a', 'b'];

I pass the above to the server code using jQuery's load:

var data = {
    'stuffs': stuffs
};

$(".output").load("/my-server-code/", data, function() {
});

On the server side, if I print the content of request.POST(I'm currently using Django), I get:

'stuffs[]': [u'a', u'b']

Notice the [] at the prefix of the variable name stuffs. Is there a way to remove that [] before it reaches the server code?