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I recently found out about this campaign to raise awareness of how girls and women are often made to feel as though ambition translates to bossiness for them. I think it is an awesome idea to have successful business women like Diane Von Fürstenberg and Condoleezza Rice making this issue known, though the idea of 'eliminating' the word bossy all together maybe doesn't sit right with me? I havnt come up with a clear reason as to why, though it may be because there is such a thing as being ignorantly bossy and ordering people around when it is inappropriate. The reason I feel some women are labeled bossy is because subconsciously some people don't feel like it is appropriate for them to be leaders, whereas it is for a man so it just becomes leading. They may be peeved by a women giving them orders because they do not feel as though they are qualified, and they trust a mans opinions more. Therefore it becomes inappropriate in their minds and they label it as bossy. Maybe 'banning' the word bossy would slowly destroy this subconscious notion, but I feel like there could be other ways as well? what are you alls' thoughts.
One of my coworkers call me bossy brod. I know it is because she always need correcting and I am not the assistant supervisor. Yet, because I make sure she is on track and doing things correctly doesn't make me a bossy brod. If I allow her to fail the team fails and looks bad to the customers we serve. Plus if you don't you help her or talk to her she thinks your mean. Maybe its my delivery which I have been watching. I don't want anyone to fail but I feel the term Bossy Brod is sooo disrespectful.
ReplyDeleteI think the word bossy may be used most frequently when someone is perceived to have a different agenda than another person and is forcing it upon that other person. Yes, in some situations a woman may be imposing her goals, agenda, or views upon another and they may be perceived as bossy. An issue with this, however, is that a man may do the same thing and simply be perceived as the boss doing his job, not bossy. The interpretation of the word 'bossy' I stated at the beginning of this comment is still true (in my personal opinion) but people are downright uncomfortable taking orders from a woman and just label her agenda as differing from their own even if the two correlate. A man especially may label a woman as wrong or bossy before she even speaks, whereas a man yelling at an employee may simply be driving an unruly employee and doing his job.
ReplyDeleteI don't think we should bossy in a negative way because sometimes I take it as that the women is doing her job because clearly people are jealous of her. She should ignore those comments and the women in charge should continue the job with the same attitude because no matter what people will never stop.
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