The B-Word and the BB Blues

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The B-Word and the BB Blues

December 3, 2007

Hey, do you recall a time when Friendster's bulletin boards were filled to the brim with funny, sensible and insightful people? Feels like an era past, doesn't it? Nowadays all I ever see are people selling bags, surveys from people with the IQ of Paris Hilton (not you, Chester. Hahaha), ANNOYING RED-HERRING CHAIN MAILS ABOUT GETTING MARRIED, dalagas complaining about how awful their yearbooks are, or whiners who post multiple messages whining about people spamming the bulletin board (see the irony there?).

But a particularly retch-worthy one, sadly, came from one of my closer real-life friends. Her bulletin post's title read "My Personalized Licensed Plate Number Says 'BITCH'".

Why are so many girls tagging themselves with that word lately? I suspect that they don't know what bitch means and that they're just using it because Tata Young (with her song "Sexy Naughty Bitchy Me") and her contemporaries - i.e. pop icons with no brains or sensibilities whatsoever - made it trendy. It just reminds me of Sean Krapston trivializing the word "suicide" (don't get me started on this!). Upon reading my friend's bulletin post, my reaction was, "Great, just another in the long line of girls who think bitch is a word of female-empowerment."

If she actually bothered to read the dictionary (and try etymology) before using that word indiscriminately, this is what she'll find:

Bitch

–noun

1. a female dog.

2. a female of canines generally.

3. Slang.

a. a malicious, unpleasant, selfish person, esp. a woman.

b. a lewd woman.

4. Slang.

a. a complaint.

b. anything difficult or unpleasant: The test was a bitch.

c. anything memorable, esp. something exceptionally good: That last big party he threw was a real bitch.

–verb (used without object)

5. Slang. to complain; gripe: They bitched about the service, then about the bill.

–verb (used with object)

6. Slang. to spoil; bungle (sometimes fol. by up): He bitched the job completely. You really bitched up this math problem.

I know that bitch has recently become a slang denoting a woman who, according to Urban Dictionary, don't give a flying f*ck anymore and that can and will be cruel to man. And hey, it's cool if a woman wants to verbally slam the male sex - even if males are conceived and parented by females (see the irony again?) - and instead of bad parenting she blames males' shortcomings to hiphop videos and Sly Stallone movies. What do I know, right? That still does not justify using of the b-word. She can use "dominator" or "dominatrix" or "menefreghista" or "misandrist" or "bad girl" for all I care. Why does she have call herself bitch - a word so thoroughly reviled, that people may interpret it as whores? Would she also want to be called puta? Or should we, like always, favor the anglicized (harrrrr)?

Girls, if you advocate equal rights, you owe your gender more dignity than to call yourselves bitches. Otherwise, please do not react when you hear Isiah Thomas's moronic remarks.

In case you didn't know, he said "It's acceptable for a black man to call a black woman a bitch."

Life's a bitch, innit?

Posted by nightdreamer at 11:54 am | permalink

Previous Comments

ain’t it funny that some girls are willing to be called bitches but not sluts. *roll eyes*

haaay… woe to the woman who wishes to be a bitch. (or called one) think, pinay, think!

Posted by dhey at December 3, 2007, 3:45 pm

Haha I like that comment very much.

Posted by nightdreamer at December 3, 2007, 3:48 pm

I guess we can’t change the world overnight. Some races has yet to give dignity to women. Islam is divided on this issue as well. I hope that someday, women will be given the dignity they so deserve.

On a different note, there’s an infamous bitch who still thinks she’s God’s gift to the Philippines.

Posted by Schumey at December 3, 2007, 8:36 pm

Haha who is that bitch, I wonder.

There’s also another, um, harpy (na lang, wag bitch) who wants to do a million things every day, although her hair might be a different story. Baka ma-damaged daw.

But after using pantene, ngayon she has time for all the things that matter, like talking her baby James to sleep.

I guess her hair is more important than her son.

Posted by nightdreamer at December 3, 2007, 8:46 pm

The word “nice” used to have a negative connotation, but it evolved to become a compliment.

I think there’s a possibility that the term “bitch” may change meaning in the years to come and I don’t think there’s something wrong with that.

Language, after all, is never static. It’s dynamic.

Posted by J at December 5, 2007, 8:37 pm

Well of course languages aren’t static, At the same time, “nice” even in its earliest meaning isn’t a flat-out obscene word compared to “bitch”. Even if you consider the dynamic nature of words, we still have to be careful, because, really, the same could really be said about “Nigger” or “Spick”. Sure, they are dynamic, but it’s very unlikely that these words, as racially offensive as it currently is, will have an edit in meaning by mere repeated usage in rap videos alone. Same thing for “bitch” for being sexually-offensive.

And really, not every words evolve.

It’s enough that we have all these misogynistic boys calling girls as bitches and girls get pissed off when that happens, so how come these same girls call themselves exactly that and stand proud of it? I really don’t understand this double-standard. Remember, we have incidents like that of Dr. Dre beating up a woman and calling her a bitch. Surely an event like that should remind us how hateful the word can be.

Also, a lot of men use bitch to mean “lewd, dirty girls” while women use bitch to mean “independent girls”, and therein stems a confusion to the context of the word. Instead of trying to sort out the irreconcilable differences - one that often involves petty bickering between contrasting genders - of using this one word, why not just opt for another word (with less negative histories)? Why go through all these trouble? Why all the bitchin’? (Ha, sorry)

For the record, I don’t use “nice” a lot. I think it’s a very flaccid word and I normally don’t use it unless I’m being sarcastic.

So anyway, great of you to drop by.

Posted by nightdreamer at December 5, 2007, 10:57 pm

Well, evolution of words doesn’t happen overnight (and overnight means at least 80 years or so). And it would take more than pop culture to change some words’ meanings.

I agree with the double standard thingy. Some Japanese think the term “Jap” is cool, when in fact it has racist connotation. So while it’s cool for a Japanese to call himself “Jap”, it’s rude when the Americans use the term. Same thing with Caucasian foreigners in Tokyo who call themselves “gaiijin” yet demand the Japanese to call them “gaikokujin” because “gaijin” has a negative connotation.

Weird, isn’t it?

I agree with you. We should just avoid troubles by using other words.

I also think that we should remind some women who use the term, especially those who speak English only as their second language, of what “bitch” really means. Just in case they don’t know. If they do, then let them insult themselves. It doesn’t hurt anyone anyway, does it?

Nice thoughts. I like the way you think.

Posted by J at December 6, 2007, 6:35 pm

Those are some really insightful comments. I didn’t know much about the connotation (though I know their meaning) of the Japanese words you mentioned, so thanks for informing me. Me likes new knowledges. For real.

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