You bitch.
As women, this is a statement that we hear often - friends, ex-boyfriends, people we turn down, even from ourselves.
It is used as a joke, a term of endearment, an insult, an attack.
It is used as a joke, a term of endearment, an insult, an attack.
We let ourselves be compared to animals and think nothing of it.
Men, young and old, are told that it's OK to do this: 'Got 99 problems and a bitch ain't one', 'Baddest Bitch', 'Cold Hard Bitch', this list goes on. We hear Nicki Minaj calling other women 'skinny bitches', as if being thin automatically makes you less, or worse, of a person.
When a woman rejects a man, the first word he'll fling back at her is 'bitch', throwing it like a dagger.
In sex, talking dirty is often comprised of a man calling his partner a bitch.
When a woman rejects a man, the first word he'll fling back at her is 'bitch', throwing it like a dagger.
In sex, talking dirty is often comprised of a man calling his partner a bitch.
I'll often hear women calling their friends bitches, endearingly. How has this word become so engrained in our social lexicon that we think that 'bitch' is a positive word.
All of this tells our brothers, fathers, boyfriends, and sons that it's socially acceptable, that it's OK to refer to their mothers and girlfriend's as a dog.
Is it?
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