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Avi\u2019Yam Jordan<\/strong> Who runs the world? Girls!\u00a0 Beyonc\u00e9 sure knows how to make women feel empowered, but would banning the word \u2018bossy\u2019 promote female leadership? \u00a0 Sheryl Sandburg, the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook has started a campaign to ban the word \u2018bossy\u2019 saying that it discourages young girls to accept leadership positions.<\/p>\n The word bossy is highly offensive to Sandburg. Visiting her website banbossy.com, the first webpage states, \u201cWhen a little boy asserts himself, he\u2019s called a leader. Yet when a little girl does the same, she risks being branded \u2018bossy\u2019.<\/p>\n Words like bossy send a message: don\u2019t raise your hand or speak up.\u00a0 By middle school, girls are less interested in leading than boys -a trend that continues into adulthood.\u00a0 Together we can encourage girls to lead.\u201d<\/p>\n Celebrities and public figures such as Beyonc\u00e9 Knowles, Jennifer Garner and Michelle Obama have all joined the campaign to ban the word.\u00a0 However, would banning the word because of an emotional response interfere with our right to freedom of speech?<\/p>\n I do not believe that being called bossy can tear young girls down, but if society is going to acknowledge the words that can discourage women, we must also look at men.<\/p>\n Double standards can always be reversed.\u00a0 People will judge a young lady who has had multiple sex partners, but excuse a man.\u00a0 Society will be more accepting of a woman who has same sex attractions but will quickly scrutinize a man.\u00a0 Whether a woman is a housewife, works or lives a single and independent lifestyle, much of society gives her the option without judgment. While if a man was without a job and lived under the provision of the wife as a househusband, he is judged as a deadbeat, loser or lazy.\u00a0 When it comes to men and women, double standards can be either with you or against you but it\u2019s up to you as an individual to accept your title.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m a boss chick! I\u2019m the Queen Bee!\u201d How often have we heard something similar come from a female in taking pride about how she is a leader?\u00a0 So is bossy a word that affects all young girls? From my perspective, it affects some but not all.\u00a0 Insults come to people in all ways, but it\u2019s all about how you rise above them.\u00a0 The insult may sting to young girls but if you look around you still see many women that are strong that prosper.<\/p>\n Whether the word bossy gets banned or not, there will always be other words that women will have to face in the workforce and socially.\u00a0 A word only has as much power as you give it and we all have the power to choose what we give our attention to anyway.\u00a0 It can only hurt if you allow it or do nothing to stop it.<\/p>\n Therefore, instead of banning bossy, how about we work on the self-esteem of young girls to develop them into women of character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Avi\u2019Yam Jordan MC Practicum Student Who runs the world? Girls!\u00a0 Beyonc\u00e9 sure knows how to make women feel empowered, but would banning the word \u2018bossy\u2019 promote female leadership? \u00a0 Sheryl Sandburg, the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook has started a campaign to ban the word \u2018bossy\u2019 saying that it discourages young girls to accept leadership […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-opinion"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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