Is it because I'm a girl?"Reluctantly, Bill nodded his head.She looked at him for a moment, her lips trembling, and Richie thought she would cry. Instead, she exploded. "Well, fuck you!" She whirled around to look at the others, and they flinched from her gaze, so hot it was nearly radioactive. "Fuck all of you if you think the same thing!" she turned back to Bill and began to talk fast, rapping him with words. "This is something more than some diddly shit kids game like tag, or guns, or hide and go seek, and you know it, Bill! We're supposed to do this, that's part of it! And you're not going to cut me out just because I'm a girl, do you understand? You better. Or I'm leaving right now!
As far as I can tell, kids are called bossy when they behave in a dictatorial and domineering fashion. They__e called bossy when they try to order people around and refuse to listen to authority figures. Here__ a suggestion: instead of telling us not to refer to them as bossy, why don__ we teach them not to be bossy? We concentrate so much on eradicating negative words while forgetting to address the behavior that the words describe.
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As far as I can tell, kids are called bossy when they behave in a dictatorial and domineering fashion. They__e called bossy when they try to order people around and refuse to listen to authority figures. Here__ a suggestion: instead of telling us not to refer to them as bossy, why don__ we teach them not to be bossy? We concentrate so much on eradicating negative words while forgetting to address the behavior that the words describe.
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