Atheists & Agnostics
In reply to the discussion: It's gotten so bad that a jury allows "you atheist arseholes" to stand 4-2 [View all]AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)"You complain constantly about insignificant things." Like complaining about the verb "to bitch"?
Oh well, I guess I'm just a pig, knave, brute, jarhead, dolt, boor, choad, wanker, scumbag, dick, dicking around.
OK, SERIOUSLY I do understand that in a male dominated history, words that describe what they perceived as pushy women not staying in their place were coined, and to think such a thing is not insulting to women would be ridiculous. But quite frankly, I never use the word with gender in mind, as I call men bitches all the time. I am not responsible for the word's etymology. "Bitch" as a noun can also mean a difficult task... "that test was a bitch!"
The word has multiple meanings and some have moved well beyond the initial meanings. Like the word "awful"... used to be "aweful"....or full of awe...meaning " inspiring reverential wonder or fear". That ain't what it means now.
Still, I suppose a campaign to clarify its insulting past and change its current status is not a bad idea. But it's an uphill climb, because, unlike a word like "nigger", it just has too many uses far afield from its original insult.