I see this morning that Google and some feminist-y groups want to ban the word "bossy." That strikes me as a very bossy thing to do.
(Over 35 years I've had three female bosses; I wouldn't describe any of them as "bossy." It's a perfectly good word which reasonable people understand. There really is, as the saying goes, a difference between being bossy and being the boss.)
I saw that too. America is definitely an uptight culture. I guess I’d take political correctness over temperance/prohibition or witch burnings, though. My theory is that people who live in freezing climates like the East Coast have nothing better to do for most of the year than sit around and worry about things that don’t really matter. They do make good boats, though.
Political correctness has a yen to institute fines and jail sentences, which may eventually come about. But it seems a little odd for people to explicitly call for “banning” something. That’s supposed to be something that only bigoted Christians want to do. Maybe they just think it sounds catchy.
It’s also odd how the Puritan streak in the American psyche seems to have spread from the original Anglos to other ethnicities.
I see this morning that Google and some feminist-y groups want to ban the word “bossy.” That strikes me as a very bossy thing to do.
Raving (bossy) lunatics.
There was a very irritating meme doing the rounds of FB recently about not telling little girls they are bossy, b/c they are really leaders. but as you’ve correctly pointed out bossiness and leadership are not the same.
Dolores Umbrage!
Exactly!
It’s especially galling coming from a bunch of billionaire yuppies. “We’re rich so we feel entitled to control your vocabulary.” I hope there is a backlash going on.
I wonder which side the cows are on.
They’re contented. Though a little puzzled as to why “bossy” would be considered objectionable.
My theory is that people who live in freezing climates like the East Coast have nothing better to do
This sort of mess arises from academic administration and corporate HR and the legal profession, not the “East Coast”. Dixie universities blow lots of time and effort and cash on hypertrophied athletic programs, but you still see the same wankers everywhere else on campus. The private university in this country with the most absurd arts-and-sciences faculty is Duke.
Sheryl Sandberg was born in DC and grew up in Miami. But she’s a Harvard BA/MBA, so maybe she absorbed the Puritan/Unitarian self-righteousness and desire to control other people there.
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