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> "if being called bossy is causing girls to lose leadership skills..." I don't think that this particular word is the root cause. More important is the reaso
by Crito 13y ago
> "if being called bossy is causing girls to lose leadership skills..."
I don't think that this particular word is the root cause. More important is the reason why people are using it. If you ban that particular word without addressing why people are using it, then those people will adopt a new word to mean the exact same thing. Creating euphemism treadmills doesn't fix anything.
- jkestner 13y agoYep. Some people are taking this too literally. (Nerds parsing? No!) The heightened awareness of how word choice subtly undermines behavior we presumably want to encourage, is the point. This article suggests that instead of banning, women embrace the word as a badge they're doing something right (a la 'nerd'), and undermining the undermining would work too.