Bossy has been getting a bad rap these days, because it’s mostly used to put down girls for qualities and behaviours that might otherwise be called leadership.
I say “be bossy”; let your leadership shine.
Erin Brenner calls this “being brave.” At least, that’s what I equate bossy with.
But when editing, you’d better flag bossy as biased language. Bossy, in this week’s “Canadian, Eh?” column on Copyediting.com.
I think copyeditors have to be braver. In reality, everything we do is only a suggestion. #GrammarChat
— Copyediting (@Copyediting) March 4, 2014
*It’s not my 100th post, just the 100th on this platform. There are more elsewhere, but I’m not one to pass up a chance for a confetti canon. I need a gif. Where is there a gif of a confetti canon?
Photos used in this post are (kid) by MAJ Aaron Haney used under CC BY 2.0 license, and (confetti) by Jeffery DelViscio used under CC by-nd 2.0 license.
