Now, as much as I appreciate Ms. Sandberg, Beyoncé, and the Girl Scouts chiming in to tell us all what we mean when we say things (kind of bossy of them, actually), I still prefer to consult the dictionary on these matters. According to that old misogynistic book of lies, bossy means “given to ordering people around, highhanded, domineering, overly authoritative, dictatorial, abrasive.” Hmmm. Could it be that girls are called bossy when they’re… well, bossy? Could it be that boys are also called bossy for the same reason? Indeed, through my investigation of the etymology of this word, I have not found even one slight bit of evidence to support the idea that “bossy” is or ever was an insult used exclusively against females. ** . . . Oh, but she isn’t done. On the Ban Bossy website, we’re told that the “confidence gap” between girls and boys “starts early.” Then they hit us with this statistic: between elementary school and high school, a girl’s “self-esteem drops 3.5 times more than boys’.” Hold on. WHAT? How can you possibly quantify some immaterial psychological concept like “self-esteem,” measure it, and then compare it, not just between two individuals, but between genders? What does it mean to say that one person has “more” self-esteem than another, and how can you assign numerical quantities to that perceived difference? This is nonsense. Complete and total nonsense that cannot be supported, proven, shown, or demonstrated. ** . . . This is a maneuver right out of page 1 in the Progressive Playbook. It’s a very simple play, really. It goes like this: make things up.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 15:25:30 +0000
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