On Being a Bitch (standard:Editorials, 1308 words)
Author: Lori	Added: Sep 08 2007	Views/Reads: 4131/2585	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
The title is self-explanatory. I got the idea from a friend who wrote a blog on the subject. It got me to thinking and this is what I came up with. WARNING: Graphic language is used!

On Being a Bitch 

By: Lori 

A friend of mine wrote something on his blog about what a bitch was and
the term being overused. It got me to thinking. What is a bitch? Is the 
word overused? As you will learn, I'm trying to teach you something 
about the world and the way we see each other. If you were to have love 
in your heart for everyone, would the world be at peace? Or would we 
still be in a war we don't have a hope of winning? 

Here are some definitions of a bitch: 

1. A female canine animal, especially a dog. 

2. (Offensive) a. A women considered being spiteful or overbearing. 

b. A lewd women. 

c. A man considered being weak or contemptible. 

3. (Slang) A complaint. 

4. (Slang) Something very unpleasant or difficult. 

I found this interesting: 

bitch: O.E. bicce, probably from O.N. bikkjuna "female of the dog" (also
fox, wolf, and occasionally other beasts), of unknown origin. Grimm 
derives the O.N. word from Lapp pittja, but OED notes that "the 
converse is equally possible." As a term of contempt applied to women, 
it dates from c.1400; of a man, c.1500, playfully, in the sense of 
"dog." In modern (1990s, originally black English) slang, its use with 
ref. to a man is sexually contemptuous, from the "woman" insult. 

"BITCH. A she dog, or doggess; the most offensive appellation that can
be given to an English woman, even more provoking than that of whore." 
["Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 1811] 

The adj. bitchy "bad-tempered" (usually of females) is first attested
1925. The verb meaning "to complain" is at least from 1930, perhaps 
from the sense in bitchy, perhaps influenced by the verb meaning "to 
bungle, spoil," which is 1823. But bitched in this sense seems to echo 
M.E. bicched "cursed, bad," a general term of opprobrium (e.g. 
Chaucer's bicched bones "(unlucky) dice"), which despite the hesitation 
of OED, seems certainly to be a derivative of bitch. Insult son of a 
bitch is O.N. bikkju-sonr. Slang bitchen "good" is first attested 
1950s. Bitch-goddess coined 1906 by William James; the original one was 
success. 

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper 

Okay, now we'll move on. What does the word bitch mean to me? It means
I'm doing the job right if someone calls me a bitch. Whether it is my 
husband, my children, my ex-husband, or a stranger on the street, when 
called a bitch I take it as a compliment, not an insult. If someone is 
calling me a bitch, I've turned down their offer of whatever. 

Being a bitch isn't what it used to be. When I was younger, you didn't
want to be called a bitch. It was still for the same reasons, you 
pissed someone off, but the feelings behind the word weren't what they 
are today. Now days, you can use the term as a pet name, and my husband 
does with me. My nickname is Baby B.  The "B" is for the bitch. I told 
him when we got together I was one, and I haven't proven myself wrong 
yet. 

If you piss me off, the bitch in me WILL come out. If you threaten my
family, pick on my kids, or even my dogs, I'm going to come out 
fighting. It's not that I don't want to be kind. I was raised in the 
South.  Kindness is ingrained in me. If I wanted to, I can tell you off 
and you'll never know if I'm joking or if I'm being serious. "As long 
as you say it with a smile, say anything you want." (The Southern 
motto.) 

Having said this, doesn't mean I don't know how to be nice. I can be as


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