"Queen Bee"

[ritaxis]

When you assert that a woman gets away with a behavior because she has a "queen bee thing" going on, what are you saying about her? What is the equivalent language you would use for talking about a man? Is there an equivalent concept? If so, why can't I think of it? If not, why?

Context is, as James Nicoll says, for the weak.

Comments

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

In this particular case, it's asserting that nobody will criticize the woman in question for her failure to behave in a sufficiently upright way, because she has a queen bee thing going on.

It's interesting that your comparison is to a way of speaking about short men. It reinforces the thought I've been having that it's a kind of criticism reserved for people who have or attempt to have power that they're structurally not supposed to have.