Christina Hoff Sommers offers a great fact check on the
propaganda currently being spread to “Ban Bossy”, here.
As she details, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s campaign is rooted in
cherry-picked data and at least one extremely old study that conveniently
support her premise. Girls overall are doing better than boys, and “Bossy” is
irrelevant to the conversation.
I don’t favor campaigns against words. As the youngest of
six children, I was the target of quite a bit of teasing growing up, and Mom
well taught me, “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt
me.”
On a more serious level, Independent Institute Research
Fellow Donald Downs was recently honored by the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, for his path-breaking work against campus speech codes
(such as our book, Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on
Campus).
Unfortunately, the largely liberal (now there’s a
misnomer if ever there was one) attempt to control who can say what has now
moved off the campus and into the mainstream, and has further expanded to witch
hunts against private citizens’ private giving to causes liberals decide are
verboten (e.g., Brendan Eich and the Kochs)…..To Read More…..
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