Beyoncé wants to ban bossy. But only for women. She’s putting her formidable whack behind the “Ban Bossy Pants” movement. I suppose I can see how someone who only appears in underwear wants others to join the pantless club.
But Facebook’s CEO Sheryl Sandberg? She’s the one who has launched a movement to actually ban the word ‘bossy’ because when she was in 9th grade she was called bossy “and that hurt.” Oh, boohoo. In that case, I want to ban the word “skank”. Oh, and “looser than a beer tap on St. Patty’s day.”
How are women going to run big business if every time we have a little booboo, a movement arises to save us, Pumpkins? [Frankly, I’m a little afraid of the women running this thing – so maybe we shouldn’t be too quick to ban the ban. I’m still catching up to that ban the bra business anyway. Where are we with that?]
Let’s take a small sampling of bossy pants travel ladies called Sue … Sue Webb, Susan Bowman and Suzanne Christie. You can bet your sweet petunias those babes were cute little blond commandos in 9th grade. Did anyone go running up to them to say “Oh, gee, little Suzie – did that boy hurt your feelings by calling you bossy? You just go ahead and wallop him until he calls you ‘assertive’.”
I think the 9th grade class ought to watch reruns of Sesame Street where they spell “c-o-o-p-e-r-a-t-i-o-n”. Those ladies would not be where they are today if they didn’t know the difference. Banning a word is like banning travel deals. It sort of makes sense in a knuckleheaded kind of way, until you realize ‘deals’ like ‘women’ rule the world.
