Thought Police
[Sheryl
Sandberg: The Word 'Bossy' Should Be
Banned
by Eyder Peralta] "Sheryl Sandberg
doesn't like a word a lot of people
and parents use to describe little
girls.
In an editorial for The Wall Street
Journal, she called it "the other
B-word." She says as a kid, she
didn't really play with other kids,
instead the current chief operating
officer of Facebook used to organize
their play.
In junior high, Sandberg recounts, a
teacher stopped her best friend and
told her: "Nobody likes a bossy
girl. You should find a new friend
who will be a better influence on
you."
In an interview with All Things
Considered, Sandberg says she is
launching a public service campaign
aimed at getting rid of the word.
"This is a very negative experience
for girls, if you look at my
childhood, if you look at the
childhood of most of the leaders we
talked to, they lived through being
told they were bossy," Sandberg
said. "And it has such a strongly
female, and such a strongly negative
connotation, that we thought the
best way to raise awareness was to
say, 'This isn't a word we should
use. Let's start encouraging girls
to lead.' "
Sandberg, of course, stirred a ton
of controversy last spring with her
book Women, Work, and the Will to
Lead, which she called a "sort of a
feminist manifesto." In the book,
she encouraged women to "lean in" to
their careers, embrace ambition and
resist the tendency to hold back
when they anticipate challenges in
their work-life balance..." Full
text:
Sheryl Sandberg: The Word 'Bossy'
Should Be Banned
Jn 8:36
Related:
Response to comment [from a Christian]: "If I had a daughter, I would want her to be "bossy". Confident women are much less likely to be abused by men."
If your daughter were being bossy, would it be abusive for a man to call her bossy? Pr 31
Nope. It's just a word. Do you think
it would be?
No, of course not. He'd be accurate.
Response to comment [from a
Christian]: "...[W]hen I was a
kid and one of my gang decided to be
bossy, we'd gang up on him and stuff
him in a garbage can
So you were the natural leader.
"But not bossy."
When groups are forming and you find yourself in one, do you tend to take the lead or do you leave that up to someone else? An example might be one of those God-awful seminars companies put on to teach you to be more customer friendly.
"I tend to go off in whatever direction interests me. If people follow me, that's cool."
We'll need to get
that interview
from you soon.
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Horrible'...
Lev 18:22,
20:13, 1 Ki 14:24, Ro 1:24, 26, 27
