History of Feminism

There's the Intellectual reason-- it animinalizes and objectifies women, and then there's the old school reason. Call me a Bitch in any way shape or form and I WILL do something about it-- this from the days of my youth

Funny, I cuss a lot, but I tend away from ones referencing women's body parts except for one or two people find FAR more offensive than bitch. Bitch is a useless, stupid word, internalized by society to alter it's meaning so it's just a bit less homophobic, just a bit less sexist to make it part of a grand joke, without changing one whit the core of its historical and misoginist dysfunction. A silly meme these days often.

I don't use it. I'm gonna cuss, I'm gonna do it for reals. And it wouldn't fly here.

So, while I don't like it, I have no intentions of cleaning up my own language either, so there you go. But if I'm going to use the word bitch in any context, I'm going to spell it out. Askerisks and the 'b-word' is silly to me, and is a disingenuous attempt to make it less offensive to those it offends.

I'm the last person who should be the language police, but I appreciate good discussions on the historical value of words, how they did or did not change, and what it means for women today. Unfortunately, DU is not the place for such discussions, given the knee jerk defensiveness seen all to often.

Let me paraphrase my daughter when she got out of the military; "don't call me a bitch---I'm not a dog-- you call me a c***, ( have to use asterisks with this one) I won't like it, I might tell you off, but it's a body part I'm proud of, and you can't take that pride away from me--and trying to make it an insult is just going to convience me you're an useless asshole quicker than calling me a bitch would".