Calling all bitches

[highplainsdem]

55. I have been called a bitch at times, and I'll usually point out that when the word is used by men upset

with a woman, it means "tough and smart."

My hero when I was young was Emma Peel (The Avengers). Tough and smart. Able to take care of herself and protect/rescue others. I admired her so much I wanted to work for the CIA and applied to and was offered a full scholarship to an East Coast university the CIA was known to recruit from, only to have that plan smashed when my dad decided he could stop paying child support for my younger siblings, so going to a local university and working full or part time all the while in school even with a Regents scholarship suddenly became necessary. Bitches WILL look out for younger siblings. And btw, I really admire Queen Latifah kicking ass as The Equalizer, too.

We are not kicking ass physically these days. At least not usually. Most of the fights are debates, and I have debate experience going back decades in school and online. My first two years online were spent moderating a forum on foreign affairs and technology where my main troll problem was a bestselling writer with RW political connections who was an advocate for a GOP policy I opposed. He lost so many debates he tried to get me kicked off, and he whined about the unfairness of real-time discussions with "trained debaters." He had his own forum, didn't have to get into debates in mine, but wouldn't stop trying...though he announced he was quitting and then returned so often we used to joke that he was stuck in a revolving door.

These days it can be harder to get RWers you want to debate with to continue discussions...though if you can, it's usually pretty easy to take their illogical arguments apart. And it doesn't require shouting, or swearing. Just cold logic.

As Kamala Harris showed everyone last fall. As HRC showed everyone when she also took Trump's arguments apart.

Misogynists still called them bitches because they were tough and smart. And misogynists hated them for that.

Bitches are never going to win the misogynist vote (unless you count wannabe smart but stupid misogynist-friendly monsters like Bondi, Noem, Greene and Boebert).

But we can show the misogynists and authoritarians for the weak fools they are. We can empower women. We can open the eyes of anyone undecided or uncommitted whose eyes aren't superglued shut.

We can fight, in any way necessary. And will.