Let's ban 'bossy' – and not just because Sheryl Sandberg and Beyoncé said so | Jill Filipovic. Do a Google Images search for the word “bossy” and you get results that fall into three camps, more or less: the children’s book Little Miss Bossy; lemon-faced little girls; and adult women glaring and pointing their index finger at you. There’s even an image of a woman in a skirt suit with one high-heeled foot on the head of a very sad-looking man.
“Bossy” has a bad rap. Now Facebook COO and Lean In author Sheryl Sandberg is trying to change that, with her #BanBossy campaign that launched this week. Because fear of being labeled “bossy” has real impact on girls’ lives: they’re more likely than boys to fear that taking leadership roles will make them seem “bossy”, they’re less likely than boys to be called on in class, and as they enter adolescence their self-esteem plummets. “Bossy” as a rejoinder has been applied, among kids themselves – kids on playgrounds, kids in classrooms, kids in more and more places – to seemingly any outspoken girl who asserts herself. Swedish toy firm Top Toy forced to become 'gender neutral' for Christmas catalogue. Top Toy pictures girls holding guns and boys holding baby dolls in catalogueComes after company was criticised for discrimination in previous catalogueSales director: 'Gender debate in Sweden so strong that we had to adjust' By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 00:44 GMT, 26 November 2012 | Updated: 08:34 GMT, 26 November 2012 Sweden's largest toy chain has been forced to become ‘gender neutral’ by picturing boys holding baby dolls and girls brandishing toy guns in the pages of its Christmas catalogue.
Top Toy - which holds the franchise for Toys R Us - made the move after being reprimanded by the country’s advertising watchdog for ‘gender discrimination’ in a previous catalogue, which featured boys dressed as superheroes and girls playing princess. A comparison between this year’s Toys R Us catalogues in Sweden and Denmark, where Top Toy is also the franchisee, showed that a boy wielding a toy machine gun in the Danish edition had been replaced by a girl in Sweden.
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Routledge Classics) Androgyny - Dictionary & Encyclopedia. Androgyny (Greek, ‘man-womanness’) is a term used to describe a person who has the characteristics of both masculinity and femininity. Androgynous figures appear in many art forms and in world mythologies.
For example, in Greek myth, Teiresias lived life both as man and woman and so gained knowledge of sexual difference. The figure of the androgyne has occurred within feminist thought and is often used to embody the relation of biological sex type and gender. Many feminists have been fascinated with androgyny and have explored it theoretically and in practice. In early feminism Virginia Woolf championed androgyny as a strategy to combat the unequal status of men and women. Later feminists have questioned the use of androgyny as a solution to male and female difference, believing that it does not take into account the way in which gender differences are imposed upon people.
Female Tennis Player Reaches Australian Open Semis, Is Asked What Man She Wants To Date. By Travis Waldron "Female Tennis Player Reaches Australian Open Semis, Is Asked What Man She Wants To Date" Eugenie Bouchard reacts to a reporter’s question about who she’d like to date. You’re a tennis reporter covering the Australian Open. Right in front of you, a 19-year-old beats 14th-ranked Ana Ivanovic in the quarterfinals, putting her within two wins of her first Grand Slam title. Maybe you ask her how she feels about going farther than Serena Williams or Maria Sharapova.
Instead of sticking to those questions, you — intrepid tennis observer that you are — ask 19-year-old Eugenie Bouchard, the story of the 2014 Australian Open thus far, who she would date if she could date any man out there. Many will be outraged by this, which you seem to realize when you make it clear that “they asked me to say this,” but your logic is impeccable. Of course, you’d never ask this sort of question of Rafael Nadal or anyone else in the men’s draw, especially not on the court after a big win.
Margaret Mead. Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured author and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s.[1] She earned her bachelor degree at Barnard College in New York City, and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. She was both a popularizer of the insights of anthropology into modern American and Western culture and a respected, sometimes controversial, academic anthropologist.[2] Her reports about the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures amply informed the 1960s sexual revolution.
Mead was a champion of broadened sexual mores within a context of traditional western religious life. An Anglican Christian, she played a considerable part in the drafting of the 1979 American Episcopal Book of Common Prayer.[3]:347–348 Birth, early family life, and education[edit] She studied with professor Franz Boas and Dr. Personal life[edit] Work[edit]