"Bossy", "Moody", "Fiery" – Women Are Reclaiming Words Used Against Us

Sweaty Betty is urging language resources to better reflect attitudes of women and society today.

Freelance Life Writer

As women, we are used to the more passionate sides of ourselves being denigrated. Our determination is called “bossy”, experiencing anything other than constant glee is “moody” and being loudly passionate makes us “fiery”.

In fact, according to research done by Sweaty Betty 9 in 10 women have reported being described negatively using words such as moody, icy, dramatic and temperamental.

This is so surreptitious that even our dictionaries use these stereotypes in definitions, such as:

She gave me a very frosty look - Cambridge

She gave me a very frosty look - Cambridge

Her expression was glacial - Oxford........

© HuffPost