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Sorry can't wrap my brain around this. This is such a non-issue I don't even know where to post it.
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Facebook chief Sheryl Sandberg, backed by the likes of Beyoncé and Victoria Beckham, is campaigning to ban the word bossy as it stops girls becoming leaders.The campaign video says: “Girls are less interested in leadership than boys because they worry about being called bossy.” Really? I thought it was because they’re often more interested in becoming mums and nurturers than boardroom bullies.
And, in my experience, those girls who have or who want to become bosses or leaders will and would have anyway. A silly, arguably inoffensive word wouldn’t have stopped them.
Another of its claims is that “when a little boy asserts himself, he’s called a leader. Yet when a little girl does the same, she risks being branded bossy.”
For God’s sake, SO WHAT?
Surely if a girl’s ambition to do whatever she wants is stifled because someone calls her a not-very-horrible thing like bossy then really, she’s not cut out for it in the first place.
And who calls little boys leaders if they’re bossing the rest of the class around? No one!
In any case, what is wrong with being bossy? And aren’t they just bossing the rest of us around by telling us we can’t use the word bossy. Oh, the irony of it all.
I’m always being told I’m bossy. I suppose I am. But if the fact that I have to tell people to do things because they haven’t got the sense to do them without me telling them makes me bossy, then so be it.
I couldn’t care less. I am direct but not rude because I see no need to pussyfoot around people, especially women and girls. They’re tougher than you think.
But I have also never had any ambition to be a leader or a boss. I couldn’t take the responsibility.
Is that because my self-esteem has been damaged by my being branded bossy? NO! Sheryl and her faux feminist cronies would say otherwise.
Because, in their eyes, all girls should be encouraged to want to be leaders and if they don’t, it’s because someone told them they were bossy.
It’s such nonsense and actually has the opposite effect – because those who have no interest in taking charge will be seen to have failed. Which is far more damaging than any stupid word.
I’m not offended by the word bossy one bit, I’m offended by this campaign and I think we should ban it, now.
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And, in my experience, those girls who have or who want to become bosses or leaders will and would have anyway. A silly, arguably inoffensive word wouldn’t have stopped them.
Another of its claims is that “when a little boy asserts himself, he’s called a leader. Yet when a little girl does the same, she risks being branded bossy.”
For God’s sake, SO WHAT?
Surely if a girl’s ambition to do whatever she wants is stifled because someone calls her a not-very-horrible thing like bossy then really, she’s not cut out for it in the first place.
And who calls little boys leaders if they’re bossing the rest of the class around? No one!
In any case, what is wrong with being bossy? And aren’t they just bossing the rest of us around by telling us we can’t use the word bossy. Oh, the irony of it all.
I’m always being told I’m bossy. I suppose I am. But if the fact that I have to tell people to do things because they haven’t got the sense to do them without me telling them makes me bossy, then so be it.
I couldn’t care less. I am direct but not rude because I see no need to pussyfoot around people, especially women and girls. They’re tougher than you think.
But I have also never had any ambition to be a leader or a boss. I couldn’t take the responsibility.
Is that because my self-esteem has been damaged by my being branded bossy? NO! Sheryl and her faux feminist cronies would say otherwise.
Because, in their eyes, all girls should be encouraged to want to be leaders and if they don’t, it’s because someone told them they were bossy.
It’s such nonsense and actually has the opposite effect – because those who have no interest in taking charge will be seen to have failed. Which is far more damaging than any stupid word.
I’m not offended by the word bossy one bit, I’m offended by this campaign and I think we should ban it, now.
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Beyonce looks ridiculous with her blonde self.
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