When my company tried to roll out the “Ban Bossy” campaign for women’s history month, I blew up. There are women in the developing world who can’t go to school past middle school for lack of bathrooms and hygiene options, so they drop out once their period starts. There are women in the Muslim world who can’t go to school because they are female, not allowed out of the house. We could look at high powered females today who have been secretaries of state, prime ministers and world leaders.
And your big thing is to ban a WORD.
That doesn’t empower women. Instead, it suggests that girls are the hothouse flowers men accused women of being in the 1920s. It makes women out to be nannying nags, monitoring and suppressing speech instead of going out and accomplishing things.
I suppose the only reason I’m not fired is because I’m female myself.
Why would businesses and the Girl Scouts come out in favor of banning words?
Well said.