Oh, you know. Only the latest effort by the speech police.
@TwitchyTeam I take it you’ve seen this absurdity from the Girl Scouts? https://t.co/pU5wikFEVs
— Rachel Veronica (@rachelveronica) March 10, 2014
We have now. Thanks a lot, Rachel!
The Girl Scouts have admittedly done a lot of great things for young women over the years. This is not one of those things:
Wut? MT @lheal: Holy lack of self-awareness, Batgirl: @girlscouts want you not to say "bossy," OR ELSE. #banbossy. http://t.co/WkJoH3Z4aQ
— David Freddoso (@freddoso) March 10, 2014
That’s right. The Girl Scouts want to strike “bossy” from our vocabulary, with a little help from Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg:
Typical bossy woman, telling me what words I can and can't use. http://t.co/5TXnKIMfbC
— Leon Wolf (@LeonHWolf) March 10, 2014
Snort. Via ABC News:
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.”
And as we all know, telling people what they can and cannot say is the best way to get them to like you.
Needless to say, Sandberg and the #BanBossy crowd aren’t exactly getting the respect they seek:
And people have noted on the irony of her bossing people around in her quest to ban the word "bossy," correct?
— Brittany (@bccover) March 10, 2014
Stop being bossy, @sherylsandberg! #BanBossy
— Eat at Arby's (@ThatElJefe) March 10, 2014
I can't stand bossy little kids. #BanBossyKids #BanBossy
— jon gabriel (@exjon) March 10, 2014
While we're at it, #BanBossy, can we #BanLeadership and #BanWinning too? What about the kids that don't speak up at all? #BanSpeaking
— JackieBWriting (@JackieBodnar) March 10, 2014
Oh look.. leftists want to ban more words they don't like.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) March 10, 2014
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
— Zovya (@Zovya) March 10, 2014
Hands over lunch money daily. RT @thisisjoshsmith: JUST IN: See image#banbossy http://t.co/YWRe6CSMTo
— Mitch Gregory (@mgcat) March 10, 2014
"People have called me bossy! Boo hoo!" Good freaking hell, get over yourself. #banbossy
— #NeverTrump Angela (@angelaisms) March 10, 2014
Since when are only female brats called bossy? I've called plenty of male brats bossy. (Also called them bratty.) #banbossy
— jon gabriel (@exjon) March 10, 2014
I had a boss that fully admitted she was bossy. Banning a word is the stupidest thing you could advocate. #BanBossy
— Chris Meller (@chrismeller) March 10, 2014
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
— Michele Frost (@michelelfrost) March 10, 2014
Never give up the Bossy #banbossy pic.twitter.com/pzRU9xjnZJ
— Rick Sheridan (@RickSheridan) March 10, 2014
So hurtful, Tina Fey. So hurtful. pic.twitter.com/xY9vSzWQ8K
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) March 10, 2014
I'll tell you what. I'll stop using the word "bossy" when the national debt starts going down. Mmmkay?
— Debbie (@mosesmosesmoses) March 10, 2014
Maybe you should fight for lives instead of words. #banabortion RT @girlscouts: The time to start building female leaders is now! #banbossy
— Rachel Veronica (@rachelveronica) March 10, 2014
BREAKING: If you have to monitor and regulate other people's speech to feel better about yourself, you are NOT empowered. #banbossy
— #NeverTrump Angela (@angelaisms) March 10, 2014
Make me a sammich. #BanBossy
— Sean Agnew (@seanagnew) March 10, 2014
Forcing people to use certain language… Ban #banbossy
— Wittorical (@Wittorical) March 10, 2014
If we ban the word bossy, then I'm stuck calling assertive women "uppity." #BanBossy
— Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) March 10, 2014
Ha!
#BanBossy: Because it's never too early to raise the next generation of speech police #1A
— Amy Lutz (@amylutz4) March 10, 2014
it's pretty bossy to insist that we ban the word bossy. #banbossy
— Christine #GoFriars (@crousselle) March 10, 2014
Girls in the middle east are being executed for learning to read. But rich Americans are wasting their time on #banbossy. #whitepeople #smh
— jon gabriel (@exjon) March 10, 2014
Cannot believe this is serious —> #BanBossy
— Kimberly (@conkc2) March 10, 2014
#BanBossy Teaching girls to be strong leaders by telling them to go running to a teacher at the first sign of disagreement
— Political Math (@politicalmath) March 10, 2014
Don't give the words of others power over you or your actions. #banbossy Banning words is a useless, victim-y effort.
— Katrina Oberlin (@Oh_Kitty_O) March 10, 2014
Bossy, bossy, bossy, bossy, bossy, bossy, bossy, bossy, bossy, bossy, bossy, bossy, bossy, bossy, bossy. #DontTellMeWhatToDo #BanBossy
— Jim Treacher (@jtLOL) March 10, 2014
This is the stupidest campaign ever —> #banbossy <— Hey Leftists, stop banning everything. It's bossy.
— jon gabriel (@exjon) March 10, 2014
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
— Amy Lutz (@amylutz4) March 10, 2014
Amen to that.
Girl Scouts want a generation of victims. When they hit the real world, my daughters will run laps around these delicate little flowers.
— jon gabriel (@exjon) March 10, 2014
