# On bitchs.sluts and political correctness **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 12, 2002, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-bitchs-sluts-and-political-correctness/103230 "2002-04-12T13:54:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-bitchs-sluts-and-political-correctness/103230/21 "2002-04-12T18:36:14Z")
Please understand, I’m taking dictation here; responding for my four-footed friend that’s sitting at foot-side: Who the hell told you humans it was OK to subvert the word “bitch” to a derogatory connotation? The best sex I’ve ever had has been with bitches. Knock it off! As for your indiscriminate use of the word “pussy”, well, take it from the voice of experience, that stuff’s only fit for chasin’ up trees. Boydog ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-bitchs-sluts-and-political-correctness/103230/22 "2002-04-12T18:39:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mouthbreather \* > \*\*Well, I am going fishing tomorrow. It may not be a bad thing. \*\* Just don’t stick your baited tongue in the water… ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-bitchs-sluts-and-political-correctness/103230/23 "2002-04-12T21:58:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mouthbreather \* > \*\*I sit with waiting, with baited breath, for even more pit threads on words we can’t use. > > While I’m waiting, can someone please pass me the offended-flakes? I clearly have not had enough to hang out in the pit this week. \*\* cheesy announcer voice: OFFENDED-FLAKES - They are just for breakfast anymore. (close in on hollywood smile with glimmer on it) ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-bitchs-sluts-and-political-correctness/103230/24 "2002-04-12T22:15:30Z")
Random thoughts on the subject of insults: One of my closest friends would sometimes go into “flaming queen” mode (usually in response to some smart-ass remark), which eventually led to either me or my wife waiting for the appropriate moment to mutter “faggot” - at which point he would stop and say either “where, where?” or “and proud of it!” Once when I was trying to negotiate through a crowded train platform I had to push past a woman who apparently thought I was unnecessarily violating her "space’’ and said something to the effect of “watch it, nigger.” I stopped and looked back at her, shook my head, and continued on my way, trying to figure out why a Black/Afro-American/whatever woman would call a white/Caucasion/whatever man “nigger”. Insults can be given, but need not be accepted. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-bitchs-sluts-and-political-correctness/103230/25 "2002-04-12T22:18:19Z")
We didn’t get much out of this debate [the last time we did it](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=102567), either. ---
**Author:** ![jlzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@jlzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jlzania)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-bitchs-sluts-and-political-correctness/103230/26 "2002-04-12T22:51:11Z")
I didn’t realize that it had been the subject of a prior pit thread \*\* Cervaise \*\*. Thanks for pointing it out. \*\*lissener’s argument was more articulate then mine but the point is essentially the same. ---
**Author:** ![tisiphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tisiphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tisiphone)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-bitchs-sluts-and-political-correctness/103230/27 "2002-04-12T23:37:44Z")
Hmm…I think I’m offended by all this offense! /Berke Breathed/ Ohmigod, it’s offensensitivity! Aiigh! :everybody runs: /Berke Breathed/ ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2002, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-bitchs-sluts-and-political-correctness/103230/28 "2002-04-13T00:29:53Z")
Oh, cripes, when you tell people what NOT to say in terms of profanity, it makes them want to say it even more. That’s why it’s profane to begin with. And for the record, I’ll paraphrase **Guin** in the other thread and say I’m proud to be a bitch. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-bitchs-sluts-and-political-correctness/103230/29 "2002-04-14T00:46:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Embra \* > It’s not the same as a word like “fag”: “bitch” is not synonymous with “woman”, whereas for the numb-nuts issuing the insult, “fag” is synonymous with “gay”. Yes, “bitch” criticises a particular female behaviour, and I agree that it’s unfair that there don’t seem to be similar words that are as offensive/useful as insults for exclusively male behaviour, but it isn’t the same as using the actual state of being a woman as an insult. > > Did that make sense? I really only joined in to use the word “tit-sweat”. Excellent point. ---
**Author:** ![RenegadeLibrarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f08c70/32.png) [@RenegadeLibrarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RenegadeLibrarian)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-bitchs-sluts-and-political-correctness/103230/30 "2002-04-14T15:41:22Z")
Where I am, Bitch has spawned a much less offencive (at least in our usage) term: Beeyyyatch, which tends to mean something akin to “dweeb.” I will illustrate with two scenes. Person slaps me for no reason: “You bitch!” Person gives me a “wet willie”: “You beeeyyyaattcchh!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-bitchs-sluts-and-political-correctness/103230.md?page=1)