The new no-no word: calling women "bossy"

[quiller]

Instapundit's Glenn Reynolds and several other major bloggers have been taking apart the recent notion that you cannot call a woman "bossy," presumably removing obstacles to Hillary Clinton by banning any word which might describe her.

So now enters Tammy Bruce, who has a few choice words to offer....

The latest iteration illustrating the pathetic absurdity of the left and its reliance on thought and speech Gestapos once again comes wrapped in the cloak of "It's for the children!" led by one of the more powerful women in business, Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook.

She, along with Anna Maria Chavez, the CEO of the Girl Scouts, penned an essay in The Wall Street Journal declaring they were both called "bossy" as girls, and now it's time to ban the "b-word" because it keeps girls from "reaching their full potential."

Fully embracing my bossy self, I'm not buying that for one minute, and neither should you. Case in point: Ms. Sandberg and Ms. Chavez were "victims" of the bossy accusation, and yet somehow it didn't condemn them to lives of telling fortunes for $1.95 a minute.

Here are two bossy women, bossing everyone around, telling them they're not allowed to call bossy people bossy. Which opens up the possibility this project is being funded by Michael Bloomberg and Michelle Obama. Who knew bossy people were so sensitive?

I don't suppose Ms. Sandberg and Ms. Chavez get the irony of how being bossy as girls (and the jealousy they encountered) was very probably the trait that informed their drive to achieve more in life than even they could have imagined.

Amazingly, conservatives (young and old alike) manage to thrive despite being called all sorts of names by liberals, including racist, sexist, homophobic, racist, mean, racist, Nazis, Brownshirts, terrorists, dumb, dumber, and, oh yeah, racist.

Why do we prevail? Because we teach our children and remind ourselves that our sense of self is within us, and not controlled by the envious and disturbed.

I'm not saying the bullying that smart girls (and women) face doesn't have an impact. It does. The answer, though, is not to indulge the liberal trope of blaming, and then using that blame as an excuse to control the thought and speech of an individual or of society as a whole.

Our answer is to empower ourselves, inevitably becoming the bosses of those who thought we were, well, bossy.

On issues of confidence, the only genuine and long-lasting answer is to build up and reinforce the self-esteem of girls themselves. Yet that's a dangerous proposition for liberals. After all, if you instill confidence and independent thinking in little girls, they'll turn conservative on you.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/13/bruce-the-power-of-bossy/

[TboneAgain]

OK, so we'll go back to 'bitch.' Problem solved.

[Cryptic Bert]

This moron doesn't realize her forcing the rest of us to not use the word "bossy" is in itself bossy. I bet she is irony impaired...