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By Matthew Philbin
In the never-ending search to find things to be offended by,
part of the feminist left has determined that “bossy,” when applied to girls
and women, is inappropriate. Really.
There’s a whole campaign
with big-name celebrities and liberal partners like Upworthy, Teach for
America, La Raza, The Girl Scouts and the AARP. Beyoncé, Condoleezza Rice,
Jennifer Garner and Jane Lynch have all signed on.
Apparently, when some girls are called “bossy,” they tend to
behave less, well, bossy. That outcome is clearly detrimental to girls’ self
esteem and willingness to take leadership roles. To which sensitive, informed
Americans can only respond, “Huh?”
But no lefty whine is too irrelevant for the media to
ignore. On the March 10 “ABC World News with Dian Sawyer” Sawyer breathlessly
called BanBossy “the powerful movement to change one word, and the future of
America’s daughters.” On ABC’s “Nightline” on March 11, correspondent Cynthia
McFadden cited a study from the Girl Scout Research Institute. “A third of the
girls who don't want to be leaders say it's because they fear being called
bossy, or being disliked by their peers,” McFadden said. “Nightline” featured
Facebook COO Sharyl Sandberg, who’s behind BanBossy suggesting that, instead of
calling your daughter bossy, say that she has “executive leadership skills.”
Really.
But while the speech police are busy handing out citations,
perhaps they could inform the public how they stand on the other B-word. Once
considered a dirty – or at least an inappropriately coarse – word, “bitch” is
now in common use in entertainment media. Given that it’s gender-specific,
obviously insulting and, as often currently used, is shorthand for subjugation,
honest feminists should find “bitch” far more troubling than “bossy.”
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