Michelle Malkin: "Bossy" Rocks!

I don't have a daughter but if I did this is what I'd tell her about the "b" word:

The key to female empowerment doesn't lie with wheedling word police. It lies with girls and women finding the courage to speak and act on their beliefs and principles without regard to their detractors' opinions.  

My message to girls, including my own 13-year-old daughter, is not: "Ban Bossy." My message is: Be Bossy. And that means first being the boss of you.

Fabulous advice--and not only for chicks!



Update: Katherine Connell points out that being "bossy" certainly didn't hinder the women spearheading the campaign to ban it:

So Sheryl Sandberg was a bossy girl; she was called bossy; she grew up to become a fabulously wealthy executive of a Fortune 500 company. Therefore the future professional success of women in America depends on our banning the word “bossy.”

I'm sure that makes sense in some alternative universe, but here on Earth...not so much.