"Really? Why not?"
"BECAUSE I SAY SO!"
I'm sorry for anyone who takes this sort of Orwellian double-think seriously.
This all sounds like a Peanuts cartoon with the ever aggressive and controlling Lucy. Can’t you see her with her clenched threatening fist as she say.” “BECAUSE I SAY SO!”?
I publicly criticized a company women’s employee resource group for promoting the “ban bossy” for women’s history month. And I did it in writing on the corporate intranet after seeing it posted for the third time.
1. If the biggest problem we have is the word “bossy”, feminism is a joke.
2. You’re ignoring true problems in the world like girls who can’t go to school in the developing world or drop out for lack of bathrooms when they hit puberty
3. If your leadership potential withers when called “bossy”, how will you handle being called arrogant, elitist, domineering or selfish?
4. Focusing on banning a word instead of developing solid leadership and character in women suggests that women are the delicate hothouse flowers men used to accuse women of being. That is a step backward, not forward.
5. A bunch of women going around as word police makes them come across as nannying nags. And no one wants to listen to a nag. Keep it up, and no one will want to listen to your cause, either.
I will probably get flack for having done this at work. Wondering what to do if they try to sentence me to diversity training or sensitivity training.