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I don't think you should be calling Ladybug "Bossy" if a boy acted like her you would say that was him having good Leadership skills, so she has good Leadership skills, not bossy.
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(June 2, 2017 - 5:20 pm)
(June 2, 2017 - 5:20 pm)
I agree! Ladybug's not bossy!
Oh dear.
This is for the magazine...
Oh dear.
(June 5, 2017 - 6:24 pm)
Um, sorry, but no. If a boy acted like Ladybug, I would say that he was being really bossy and unnecessarily rude. And Ladybug is bossy. A trait that I deeply admire.
Are you saying that you think boys are better leaders than girls? Or are you saying that the general public thinks that men are natural leaders, and women aren't because they're weak?
Please rethink your choice of words here, because that's the message I'm getting. An extremely negative one. Even if you did mean it that way, I would still want you to please change your phrasing.
(June 6, 2017 - 5:41 am)
While I would agree, I think the point was actually that society would say that boys are natural leaders and that girls aren't, and that 'Somebody' disagrees with that.
(June 6, 2017 - 10:42 pm)
(October 23, 2017 - 7:27 am)
I agree with Rose Tyler's point to some extent. The thing is, I am a girl and obviously a feminist, but this is going overboard. Girls and boys can both be bossy. There is nothing wrong with being bossy. Ladybug is bossy. Her leadership skills are a different thing entirely. It is an issue to assume that everything is sexist. Society would call a boy in her position bossy as well.
(June 7, 2017 - 1:42 pm)
Sorry for posting so late, but...
Cricket and Ladybug have the same traits. But Cricket is known as the leader. Let's take a look at some of the times where Cricket exhibits bossiness (or, if you will, being prideful)--
On Meet Everybuggy, this very own website's animation for the buggies, Cricket says, and I quote--
HI! I'M CRICKET–
THE CLEVER, HANDSOME, AND STRONG LEADER OF THE GANG
(Sorry it came out in all caps, I copy pasted his exact message and the font was as large as caps.)
Ladybug, however, does care about fun for her friends and herself. Anyone else remember that issue with Norse legends in it? Poor Ladybug thought she was defeating monsters and just wanted to be a warrior princess. At the end of the comic, Cricket carves her a rune stone, saying something like (Sorry, I can't find where I put the translation) to beware of mean Ladybug, with a stick she is vicious!
And Cricket carved that into rock. If someone's being bossy to you, thats not how you react. And Ladybug tries so hard to become a Buggy Scout--she has incredible determination--and she didn't even mean to push the other bugs around then.
Ladybug is also very kind to Pussywillow and shows selflessness in how she acts to her favorite little Pussywillow. "Mewy lovey you" (~Pussywillow, Mother's Day Edition) And Pussywillow cares back.
This isn't to say that Ladybug isn't bossy--she is!--but Cricket's honestly just as bad as her. Can I mention that Cricket calls her an idiot to her face?!
In one of the editions (I forget which, and right now I'm WAY too comfy on this couch to go up and get it xD), there's the story of the Giant's Causeway. Beneath it, someone--darn. I'm going to have to go get my magazines now.
Ahem. In Cricket May/June 2016--
Ladybug: A huge audience for me! Yours truly in the spotlight.
Sounds like she's just joking around. A lot of times when they say she's being self-centered, she's normally just joking around.
Cricket: Ha! In your dreams, Ladybug.
(These actually happened. Get out old mags and look.)
In the October 2016 issue, in the letterbox, Ladybug reacts to a letter--
Ladybug: Vivacious and alluring, that's me!
Cricket: Alluring, or alarming?
That seems as if Cricket may have gone a bit overboard. Ladybug seemed to be just enjoing herself and joking around, and is actually playing with Pussywillow as she's saying it.
She also gets picked on (a little bit) by Cricket when she's done nothing, as seen in the September 2016 comic--
Cricket: We don't need another Ladybug bossing us around!
(To which Ladybug replies "Hey!". Honestly a good response, she could've overreacted.)
In the same issue, in the Legend of the Giant's Causeway story, Ladybug translates some Irish from the passage, explaining that Eejit is Irish for idiot.
Then, later--
Ladybug: If there's a salmon of knowledge, why not a Ladybug of Wisdom?
Cricket: Don't be an eejit!
Or, rather, don't be an idiot.
Enough evidence to prove that some people may have overlooked Cricket's moments of bossiness, although they are lesser than Ladybug's. So maybe they're equal, then? Because Ladybug is, sometimes, VERY misunderstood.
(June 10, 2017 - 10:01 am)