7) Not everyone’s a leader and it’s time to stop shaming people who aren’t.
This is perhaps the most important point. The BanBossy site says:
“Together we can encourage girls to lead. Pledge to Ban Bossy.”
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This biases the idea that the only way to be a leader is to order people around or be super assertive. In fact, there are all sorts of ways of being human and even of being a leader. And the idea that girls aren’t fully actualized unless they’re acting the way boys used to act before we medicated them away from it is not nearly as female-affirming as it sounds.
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