Yes indeed, though I think it’s used far more often in an attempt to dominate/emasculate the insultee, rather than a response to his whining or complaining. It’s not uncommon to hear women/girls direct it towards males too.
That is a very good example of what I was thinking of. For more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQTrdYEaoIU
I have heard more than one woman tell someone else (usually a guy) to suck her dick (in a rather non-inviting way). It has the particular effect of stopping everything for a second or two – at least, the first time she says it, after you get used to hearing it, it loses its impact.
I think the premise is to suggest (to a woman) that that is the thing that defines her, that all her other qualities are of no significance.
You could keep “bitch” and just add “cur” for men.
Or traits like vindictiveness, malice and cruelty.
That latter insult works best when accompanied by “peasant” and a backhand to the face. Oh, and you’ll want to have someone following you around referring to you as “milord”. 
Sounds good to me.
I can’t help but wonder, purely academically, if hypothetical terms like “assholess” or “assholine” might be considered feminine forms of the insult, but not gender-based insults. Y’know, “You’re a contemptible person (female)” vs “You’re a contemptible female.”
Very valid point, although if that line was thrown at me in the middle of an argument it would certainly stop me in my tracks for a few seconds while I processed the request.
Wait. You haven’t been calling women assholes all this time? I’ve been calling people assholes, douchebags, dickheads, fuckheads, shitheads (I like to tack on the word “head” to expletives, apparently), and jerk asses ever since I learned the joy of childish insults with complete gender neutrality.
I realize that there are some swear words generally directed toward women (bitch, cunt), I never thought for moment there were slurs to be applied for men. Maybe “dick” or “prick” or something else that refers to male genitalia, but certainly not “asshole.” That’s for everybody.
- I’m not sure about “bastard” being the masculine equivalent to “bitch”. Can’t women of the female gender be conceived outside of The Holy Bonds of Matrimony also?
B. I wouldn’t be an a great rush to purge “bitch” from your vocabulary. It still might come in useful as a verb. “Bitch and moan”, to me, has different emotional content than “piss and moan”. I’ve been an enlisted man in 2 branches of the Armed Forces, so I have personal experience with both.
Isn’t “son of a bitch” a perfectly good masculine equivalent to “bitch”? Meaning that you’ve inherited your mother’s bitchy traits.
I have trouble applying the word ‘asshole’ to women, as something in my brain reads ‘asshole’ as male-gendered. I view ‘bitch’ (in the sense of ‘female jerk’) to be the feminine equivalent of the masculine ‘bastard’, and use it accordingly.
That said, I never use the word ‘bitches’ as a substitute for ‘women’, because that’s where my behavior-sense starts tingling that it veers into misogyny.
“Start”?
Especially when modified by “farging”, in a mock-Sicilian-American 1980s accent.
Such as the one in Johnny Dangerously.
I call bitches bitches all the time. Hell’s Kitchen might as well be called “Hell’s Bitches.”
And I call men bitches too, if they act like bitches. From Hit Girl 2 (it’s in a trailer, I’m not spoiling anything): “Act like a bitch, get slapped like a bitch.”
From a 16 year old girl, spoken to an older boy. And she did slap him, twice.
It is curious. I’m personally fond of cock/dick, both my own and those of others, and in the right circumstances, assholes have a certain charm all their own. And “wanker,” or, in the more American version, “jagoff/jerkoff/jackoff!” Hell, I used to do that every day when I was younger, and still shoot (heh) for several times a week. (And have very randy multiple jagoff days, even.) Life would be a less happy thing without wanking. And yet these are all considered insulting.
Language, not unlike cats, is weird.