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Tuesday, March 22, 2005

"Bitch" takes on a new word



RB pointed out this article to me from the NYT. Its pretty funny. I think I have enough Beeshes in my life.

Television's word of the day is bitch, but this is not your mother's bitch. That classic version designates a dog, a hardship, a way of complaining or a spiteful woman, the one whose sharp edge, according to the fearsome sexist double standard, would surely make her a respected surgeon or astronaut if only she were a man. But the new "bitch," in a usage that has become popular on network television, refers not to dogs or women, but to men. And while parody and overuse are taking the misogynistic sting out of the old one, this new bitch is just getting its claws.

Read the full article here: "Epithet Morphs From Bad Girl to Weak Boy" (NYT 03.22.05)

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