Legal Insurrection recently reported on Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, and the “Ban Bossy” campaign that is likely to have been launched as part of Hillary Clinton’s move to secure the 2016 nomination as the Democratic candidate for president.

Hunter College student Kyle Sabo analyzes the video as well, seeing a bit of hypocrisy amid all the drama.

I am not in the habit of telling people what causes they should advocate for, nor is it de rigueur these days to infringe on the modern concept that everyone, despite what Daniel Patrick Moynihan said, is entitled to their own facts. However, I think Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, would be wise to turn her attention to her co-stars in the video promoting her “Ban Bossy” campaign.  Forget about those evil grade school boys, who call their female classmates the “b-word” (that’s right, bossy), and consider the crowd Sandburg surrounds herself with in this video:

• Secretary of Education Arne Duncan appears in the video and says that we need to tell girls that “it’s OK to be ambitious….”
• Beyoncé tells us that she’s not bossy, but that she’s “the boss….”
• Jennifer Garner demonstrates the liberalism of the group when she confidently (bossily?) proclaims that “being labelled something matters….”

It should come as no surprise that Sheryl Sandburg has surrounded herself with run of the mill liberals like Duncan, Beyoncé, and Garner, who apparently share her view that in order to be empowered, women must focus on wordplay and not on the vast biological, systemic, and cultural barriers that women face in competing for jobs with men….

As a conservative and a budding devotee of the liberty movement, I am troubled by where the obvious extension of Sandberg’s logic might take our society. Does Sandberg, who has moved at the highest levels of business and government, envision a society where quotas are kept based on gender, despite the relative strength or weakness of a person’s qualifications for running a company or executive department? In Sheryl Sandberg’s world, would her binders full of women have been more readily embraced by the media than Mitt Romney’s binders full of women solely because her binders were created by a female? Are we striving to create an equal society in which numbers on a Census Bureau ledger prove perfectly equal, or a more just society in which a woman, should she so choose, would have the same opportunity to achieve success as a man would?

In Ms. Sandberg’s world, stick and stones may break our bones, but words and labels will always do the most harm.