‘Tweet of the year!’ If we can’t call girls ‘bossy,’ can we stop calling little boys this?

Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2014-03-12 03:52

Article here. Excerpt:

'`Assertive little girls are leaders to be celebrated. Assertive little boys are rapists to be medicate`
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Yep, as Twitchy reported, this is happening: A#BanBossy language-policing campaign launched by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.

We wonder if they will accept this compromise?

`If we're going to stop labeling little girls "bossy", can we stop labeling little boys with finger guns "psychotic latent mass murderers"?`
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That tweet was retweeted 500 times and counting. It does say it all, doesn’t it?'

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