I obviously I really want to ditch all this schoolwork right now and take a train to the Nuyorican. But I also can't stop thinking about the word "bitch" and about the ways in which women are compartmentalized by language. Of course here's the continually frustrating slut/prude dichotomy. But "bitch" really gets me. The word connotes a woman who is aggressive and ambitious and present, but the word is obviously used to degrade those wonderfully aggressive and ambitious and present women. If man is confident-seeming, he’s completing his God-given duty as a member of the “higher sex.” At the very least, he’s definitely not a bitch.
Guys are called bitches when they display weakness – a stereotypically feminine characteristic. So I guess this is how society uses the word “bitch” as both a tool to put assertive women in their proverbial places and shit on girls as weak. But, really, if strong women are bitches, then I can only aspire to be the baddest bitch on the face of this twisted Earth.
Guys are called bitches when they display weakness – a stereotypically feminine characteristic. So I guess this is how society uses the word “bitch” as both a tool to put assertive women in their proverbial places and shit on girls as weak. But, really, if strong women are bitches, then I can only aspire to be the baddest bitch on the face of this twisted Earth.
On a lighter, less-ranty note, I'm going to be in some lovely Spanish cities over spring break on a school trip! It's my first time in Europe, so my parents are losing their minds. Planning on bringing my camera and pretending to be more cultured than I really am.
