Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg: who are you calling bossy? | Life and style | The Guardian. I don’t think I have ever used the term “bossy” in my life. But, due respect to the compassionate idea behind Ms. Sandberg’s campaign to ban the word, I reserve the right to use any word in the English language under what I deem to be the appropriate circumstances, regulated by a moral and ethical code, not by government regulation or organized peer pressure.