Whosa Bitch?

My regular readers will already know this, but before I make a provocative post, I thought I'd get a few things straight. I have always understood bitch to be a derogatory reference to women. I am always surprised at women referring to themselves or other women as bitches in a friendly way. Although there are other slurs where this occurs, so maybe its accepted.

I have used the word bitch a lot and I just want to assure the female audience that I mean no disrespect to the female population in general, just the two bitches in my life. That would be my ex, referred to simply as "bitch", and her seemingly older twin lawyer who I refer to as "hired bitch".

I also avoid stooping to use of body part references, I have repeated my lawyers reference to the "hired bitch" as "fuckin cunt", but that even makes me cringe a little, but I use it to demonstrate just how low the woman is viewed by others. I refer to my own lawyer as a "pussy" (not a cat) because he is that and worse. To be PC, I should say "wussy" or "wimp". But since I called him "fuckin pussy" to his face and it upset him so and the rest of the firm knows I did (I think I saw his assistant trying to fight off a smirk from her face), it has stuck, although I usually just shorten it to "pussy". And since we have talked of testosterone poisoning of late, I might as well mention that I refer to my lawyer as "testosterone starved" and I don't mean that in a good way as some of my readers may suggest.

Well this is the basis for a future post. I want to make it clear that derogatory language is meant to be directed to individuals, I do not have a gender bias or grudge, I freely admit that I do have a divorce system/lawyer/judge bias (that crosses gender lines).

Hopefully women will allow me these exceptional slurs without taking personal offense.

I have heard some say that a "bitch" is any woman who speaks her mind. Since that would be expected behavior in western culture, it would make all women "bitches", somehow I doubt that is a widely held definition.

If any one can conjugate the word bitch for me and help me understand the acceptable and unacceptable uses, that might be interesting, for now, I confine my usage to a narrow band.

As always, I don't mean to offend, if you think I did, let me know and I'll try to make it right. I ask the same courtesy in return.