#WordsMatter

#WORDSMATTER and impact our lives.

 I was having a discussion on YouTube as I usually do, I love conversing right before or after watching a nice enjoyable video, when I came across one of the many mean ridiculous comments. The link to the video: Ban Bossy -I'm Not Bossy. I'm the Boss. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=6dynbzMlCcw J 

This commentator believed that women in America shouldn't care about “harmless” issues that do not affect the American people as much as say poverty levels and health care. Just because American women might have more rights than women in the Sudan or Saudi Arabia does not mean women in America should just stop fighting for equal rights or for more freedom. That is such a stupid notion to even presume. The fact of the matter is that small problems leads to big problems. Such a “small” insignificant problem like this will grow and become disastrous as seen in every day “free” society. 

He or she believed calling a little girl bossy isn't a problem.  That the word BOSSY wasn't a problem word. But it is and the word hypothetically should be banned. Why, you ask? Because the word bossy leans in to other words these little girls will hear throughout her life. Bitch, hoe, slut, whore, cunt are only a few words that will be used to degrade, to dismantle and eradicate the self-esteem of them. This was the conversation I had with him.

Akantor77: watching this video and reading the comments i can only think of MURICA



Me: What's that supposed to mean?

Akantor77: complaining about a word, where they have a huge problem with the weapon loby and the heath system

Me: #WORDSMATTER and impact our lives.

Me: Telling a little girl she's bossy will have an adverse effect on her long time wise. She will stop raising her hand in class to speak, she will avoid leadership roles and positions, and she will doubt herself. Because girls aren't meant to lead. <- Sarcasm, did you catch that? I was that girl and many of my peers where and might still be that girl. I am a freshmen college student I will try not to be that girl because I have no excuse. My college president is a beautiful woman. 

My club adviser is a beautiful woman. My student government president is a beautiful young woman, women can be great leaders because I see it every day. I live it. I breathe it. I am a leader. Now this self-doubt or perpetual cycle doesn't happen with every girl or woman but a good many. Think before you speak, the issue is way deeper than what you think it is.

What I would like to ask him or her is, who will fight for other people’s injustices, if you do not care? If no one cared? People who do not fight stands in the way of people who do. If you’re not part of the conversation/solution than you are part of the problem. #BanBossy