So, in thinking further about whether the b-word is sexist, I'm going to come up with the predictable response that its all about the context. If somebody is joking, it can be OK. If someone is using it to mean that this particular woman is so mean or nasty that she deserves to be called a female dog....well....its just not nice.
Because the history of the word is not nice, unless you're a full time comedian needing to make a few cutting edge jokes, I think that in most contexts you're just going to be dropping a little mean bomb into conversations when you use the word.
Also, there are far and away not enough demeaning words for white males because they are the top of the heap and always have been. The fact that there is an opportunity to use an especially loaded word for women, gay people, or non-white people, should give any one pause about using those words....
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It saddens me to see a high quality blog degenerate into a quest for the perfect "get-whitey" epithet. . .
Yeah yeah, bitch is androcentric, there are tons of derogatory terms for people of color. . .this blog sounds like undergraduate antics from Brown U.
C'mon kids do we need more epithets. . .is this some kind of equal protection of hatred thing? WTF? Any casual observer could notice that people call men bitches, women call eachother bitches, and bitch generally has morphed beyond the narrow woman-as-dog application to generally connote a difficult woman of truculent nature. . .hmmmmm?
As long as I got a Baretta, nigga, I'm down for whateva
I roll with my shit off safety, for niggas that been hatin' me lately and the bitches that wanna break me. . .
Dre
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