I got a brief note which, in its entirety, said why r u such a bitch?
Well, now, that’s a good question. I’ll think about that a little bit. In the meantime, I thought it might be interesting to enquire of some of the other bitches around here. So, gals, why are you a bitch? (Not saying that you are one, just wonderin’ why you are, if you are).
Reply “Because you ask me questions using IM speech instead of proper English.”
Yeesh. I suspect I’m thought of as a bitch sometimes at work, but there’s standing up for your department and lying over and let someone ride right over our deadlines with no regard to the extra work it will cause.
Sometimes I win, sometimes I lose. But I make them pick their battles. And I think my “bitchiness” is working, because things are slowly getting better.
Ever since I got my hysterectomy, the response has been “because now, I don’t need to use 5 days at the end of the month as an excuse. I can be a bitch whenever. I. Want.”
As a first-class bitch myself, I’ve been mulling the question of bitchiness over a lot lately. Some people are very threatened by a strong woman, and I think that calling them bitches is a way to try to put them back in their place.
I prefer to think that bitch stands for Being In Total Control of Herself. If it’s a question of getting over on me and me being quiet and meek and letting you do it, or me being a bitch, well, I’ll take the bitch label any day.
Also, I’ve lately started noticing that, to some men, a woman is either a Whore or a Bitch. That is, their worth lies in being a sex object, or if she doesn’t have that going for her or she’s not willing to be that, then she’s just a worthless bitch. And to some men, all women fall into one of those two categories. I’d like to think that as society advances, that’s falling by the wayside. But then I see a lot of young women today that are actually buying into that, and maybe we’re not advancing at all.
Ditto on **trublmakr’s ** first line…there are some real bitches, but too many people, threatedn by strong women (women included!) call anyone a bitch.
Most people I know would say I’m a sweet, kind, caring girl, who would never purposely hurt someone. However, there are a handful of people in the world who I’ve had to stand up to for some reason or another who will tell you without hesitation that I am an evil, rotten, bitch.
Actually I would have to disagree with that, trublmakr. Some women can be classified as both a whore and a bitch, generally if they don’t want to sleep with the man who is labelling.
Me, I’m only a bitch when someone is being unreasonable. Happens more often than I’d like. But I’m not going to be nice and a doormat, never again.
I thought in that case, the woman was automatically a lesbian.
A few weeks ago I went camping with my best friend, who’s a man, his 18 year-old son, and my six year-old son. As we were coming home, and his son was driving, my friend referred to the woman we were behind, who was only going the speed limit, as a bitch. Oh, boy, did that piss me off. I let him know in no uncertain terms that, if he was going to call women bitches because they weren’t doing as he pleased, he was not to do it in front of MY son. And that every time he referred to women as bitches, he was sending a message both to my son and HIS. I really had to re-examine our friendship after that incident, but eventually decided that the good parts of it outweighed the bad.
It works well when I hear “Is it that time of the month?”
I’ve mostly heard “God, what a bitch” used when referring to a woman who refuses to compromise her principles. Whether I agree with that woman’s principles or not isn’t the point. Women are generally viewed as flexible and willing to compromise. For some reason, when a woman refuses to do it’s always a surprise and she is viewed as a “bitch.” The word “no” has a lot of power.