For me, saying 'I'm bossy' is a cute, tongue-in-cheek way of saying that I'm in control of my life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've always been bossy.
'Bossy' is someone who bosses people around without reason.
I swear I'm not bossy in any other aspect of my life - it's just on set.
I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.
I'm not really a management-type person. It doesn't suit my personality to be bossing people around.
I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.
It's not that I'm a 'Let's hug and be joyful all the time' boss. Or that I don't, quote, 'own my own power.' I just never want to be that big, swingin', rule-by-fear person.
I love someone who tries to boss me around.
We call our little girls bossy. Go to a playground; little girls get called bossy all the time - a word that's almost never used for boys - and that leads directly to the problems women face in the workforce.
Using the word 'bossy' for girls can be quite harmful. What is that saying - that being focused, being assertive, being the boss has a negative attribute? And I have heard that term associated more with women than with men. 'He's so bossy' - you don't hear that. It's a very subtle thing.