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    what the heck is #BanBossy?

    At the risk of actually learning the answer, what the heck is #BanBossy?

    Oh, you know. Only the latest effort by the speech police.


    I take it you’ve seen this absurdity from the Girl Scouts?


    The Girl Scouts have admittedly done a lot of great things for young women over the years. This is not one of those things:



    That’s right. The Girl Scouts want to strike “bossy” from our vocabulary, with a little help from Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg:

    Leon Wolf

    Typical bossy woman, telling me what words I can and can't use.

    Sheryl Sandberg Launches 'Ban Bossy' Campaign
    By Cynthia McFadden @CynthiaMcFadden http://abcnews.go.com/US/sheryl-sand...ry?id=22819181

    Can banning one school-yard word, really change the world? Sheryl Sandberg says yes.
    ABC News @ABC
    11:54 AM - 10 Mar 2014

    Can banning one school-yard word really change the world? Sheryl Sandberg says yes.

    Sandberg -- the chief operating officer of Facebook and author of the best-selling book "Lean In" -- is spearheading the launch of a campaign today to ban the word "bossy," arguing the negative put-down stops girls from pursuing leadership roles.

    "We know that by middle school, more boys than girls want to lead," Sandberg said, "and if you ask girls why they don't want to lead, whether it's the school project all the way on to running for office, they don't want to be called bossy, and they don't want to be disliked."

    Sandberg said these attitudes begin early and continue into adulthood. "We call girls bossy on the playground," Sandberg said. "We call them too aggressive or other B-words in the workplace. They're bossy as little girls, and then they're aggressive, political, shrill, too ambitious as women."

    Sandberg's organization Lean In is joining forces with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Girl Scouts USA CEO Anna Maria Chávez to launch a public service campaign called "Ban Bossy." The banbossy.com website gives tips for parents, kids, teachers and others about how to encourage young female leaders.

    Chavez said she got involved immediately after receiving a call from Sandberg, and believes the Girl Scouts are ideal partners for the new initiative. More than half of all American women were once Girl Scouts and two million girls are currently in scouting, she pointed out. "Imagine a classroom in America where 50 kids are present: 25 girls, 25 boys," Chavez said.

    "And the teacher walks into this classroom and says: 'Boys and girls, I have this really hard, difficult program that I need to solve that's gonna impact this country.' She writes the problem on the board and then turns around and escorts 24 of the 25 girls out of the room. ... She leaves one girl and 25 boys to solve that equation. That's what's happening every day in this country. Why wouldn't we want more girls to be opting in to building the right solutions this country."

    The goal of the "Ban Bossy" campaign is to help girls and women feel more confident and comfortable as leaders. "I was called bossy when I was in ninth grade," Sandberg recalled. "My teacher took my best friend Mindy aside and she said, 'You shouldn't be friends with Sheryl. She's bossy.' And that hurt."

    While she and the other women leaders she is recruiting were able to persevere despite the taunt, many little girls can't, she said. "If you look at the world, women do 66 percent of the work in the world. Woman produce 50 percent of the food. Women make 10 percent of the income and women own 1 percent of the property. We are 50 percent of the population. We are 5 percent of the Fortune 500 CEOs," Sandberg said. "We are 17 percent of the board seats. We are 19 percent in Congress. That's not enough for 50 percent of the population. We live in a world that is overwhelming run and owned by men."

    During an interview at Facebook headquarters, she and Chavez are quick to point out that they are not encouraging rude, mean-girl behavior or bullying. "Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression," Sandberg said. "Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place."

    Sandberg said she hopes the campaign will open a dialogue with parents and teachers, to eliminate the use of the word "bossy," though she concedes this is not really as simple as banning one word.
    "This is a word that is symbolic of systemic discouragement of girls to lead. We are not just talking about getting rid of a word, even though we want to get rid of a word," she said. "We're talking about getting rid of the negative messages that hold our daughters back."

    Sandberg is a director of The Walt Disney Co., the parent company of ABC News.

    Watch "Nightline" anchor Cynthia McFadden's interview with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Girl Scouts USA CEO Anna Marie Chávez on Monday, March 10, first on "Good Morning America" at 7 a.m. ET, then on "World News with Diane Sawyer" at 6:30 p.m. ET and "Nightline" at 12:35 a.m. ET.


    http://abcnews.go.com/US/sheryl-sand...2819181&page=2



    Brittany C @bccohan

    And people have noted on the irony of her bossing people around in her quest to ban the word "bossy," correct?

    12:21 PM - 10 Mar 2014
    S.M @redsteeze

    Oh look.. leftists want to ban more words they don't like.

    12:36 PM - 10 Mar 2014
    Vhey Preexa @VheyPreexa

    I'm called bossy all the time. Not once have I ever thought it was bad. Oh, maybe it's because I don't consider myself a victim. #banbossy

    12:28 PM - 10 Mar 2014
    Michele Frost @michelelfrost

    If you think that banning words is the way to teach young girls to compete in the real world, you're part of the problem #banbossy

    12:54 PM - 10 Mar 2014
    Rick Sheridan @RickSheridan

    Never give up the Bossy #banbossy



    11:56 AM - 10 Mar 2014
    Angela Nelson @angelaisms

    BREAKING: If you have to monitor and regulate other people's speech to feel better about yourself, you are NOT empowered. #banbossy

    12:50 PM - 10 Mar 2014

    Political Math @politicalmath

    #BanBossy Teaching girls to be strong leaders by telling them to go running to a teacher at the first sign of disagreement

    1:23 PM - 10 Mar 2014
    Amy Lutz @amylutz4

    Girls who fail to lead because they were called bossy at some point in their lives weren't meant to be leaders in the first place #banbossy

    12:07 PM - 10 Mar 2014
    jon gabriel @exjon

    Girl Scouts want a generation of victims. When they hit the real world, my daughters will run laps around these delicate little flowers.

    12:09 PM - 10 Mar 2014
    jon gabriel @exjon

    Girls in the middle east are being executed for learning to read. But rich Americans are wasting their time on #banbossy. #whitepeople #smh

    12:45 PM - 10 Mar 2014

    http://twitchy.com/2014/03/10/stupid...t-to-banbossy/
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    That’s right. The Girl Scouts want to strike “bossy” from our vocabulary, with a little help from Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg:
    Actually, it's the other way around. Sheryl Sanberg started it, and asked the Girl Scouts to back her.

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    Jason Dean ✔ @jasonavp

    Beyonce is trying to ban the word "Bossy". She believes it is negative towards women. IS THIS REAL LIFE?!!

    3:25 PM - 10 Mar 2014
    Jason Dean is the bassist for alternative pop band Artist vs Poet. (Trivia tidbit: Joe Kirkland, the band’s lead vocalist, competed on season three of “The Voice.”)

    On Monday, Dean caught wind of Beyoncé’s participation in the FLOTUS-approved campaign to ban the word “bossy.” http://twitchy.com/2014/03/10/first-...ossy-campaign/ Because, you know, nothing helps girls develop leadership skills like the asinine banning of words.

    “I’m not bossy, I’m the boss,” Beyoncé declares in her endorsement of #BanBossy.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dyn...layer_embedded

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dyn...layer_embedded



    Dean pointed out the laughable feminist hypocrisy in a series of tweets about Bey and her husband, Jay Z. Like a boss:

    Jason Dean ✔ @jasonavp

    Don't get me wrong I'd bow down to Queen B but really?
    You and Jay Z say "nigga" and "bossy" in like every song.......smh


    3:28 PM - 10 Mar 2014
    But that’s, like, empowerment or something. Nothing at all like uttering the word “bossy.”


    As Twitchy reported, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Girl Scouts USA CEO Anna Maria Chávez have launched a campaign to ban the word “bossy” from Americans’ vocabularies, saying the word stops girls from seeking leadership roles. Of course, Michelle Obama is on board as well, along with Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

    FLOTUS ✔ @FLOTUS

    “Every time you stretch your mind, you boost your confidence.”
    —The First Lady encouraging girls to lead #BanBossy




    4:08 PM - 10 Mar 2014

    We can get behind the effort to raise girls to value leadership skills and assertiveness, but we’re not sure a top-down ban on the B-word is the way to go. But what other options are there?

    http://twitchy.com/2014/03/10/first-...ossy-campaign/

    Until today I cannot remember the last time I actually heard the word "bossy" used (except for a cow's name). B!tchy, yes, bossy? Pretty outdated. But yes, let's get on a campaign to redirect attention.

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    isn't this the same flotus that is demanding that schools feed "food" to the kids that they won't eat and yet gloms onto every high cal thing she can get her hands on? Or is that another flotus I am thinking of?

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    Remember when "freedom" advocates were bemoaning the censorship of books and things by the Religious Right?

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    Apparently bossiness (known by most others in this day as bitchiness) itself is fine. Just ban the word so little girls can feel good about being bossy.

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    "Mr. Kettle? The First Pot is on line two."

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    Why is it that our empowerment is determined by being like men? I don't understand how forcing someone to change their language changes how they feel. A good leader inspires others who voluntarily do the right thing. As a combat leader with male and female subordinates, I had lives in my hand. Did I care if they called me bossy as long as we all made it home? No.

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    So somehow, banning a word is going to magically make things better. Do you have any proof of that beyond "it feels right"?

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    Wow, just wow. So censorship is wrong except for when THEY do it.
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    These bossy women need a damn hobby instead of banning words.

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