Bitch

said that I was a dysfunctional bitch, at that moment in time I got so upset. Whereas, the more that I sat there the more that I got angrier. Then, at that moment, I got up and asked him who he called a dysfunctional bitch, I could not believe that this little man called me out my name. So, he said that he was talking about me I told him that I got his dysfunctional bitch. However, at that point in time I got up and showed him that I will show him a dysfunctional bitch. Furthermore, I told…

Reclaiming Critical Analysis: The Social Harms of “Bitch” “Sexism is the water we swim in, and we are the fish who cannot see it.” Sherryl Kleinman asserts in The Social Harms of Bitch: a piece where she analyzes how some women have recently attempted to “reclaim” the term “bitch” in popular culture and questions whether it is possible to endow a sexist term with a positive connotation. Women can say “bitches” in reference to her friends, say “sexy bitch” in a positive connotation, but despite…

Bitch Media started off as Bitch magazine, a feminist zine first published in January 1996 by Lisa Jervis, Benjamin Shaykin, and Andi Zeisler. Since 1996, the non-profit multimedia organization has expanded to include an online presence that analyzes politics, mainstream media, and pop culture through a feminist lens, offering a podcast and articles posted daily. The physical magazine also continues to be printed quarterly. In an article posted September 27, 2016, writer Sarah Mirk points out…

In the readings assigned for this week Megan J. Lee and Leign Moscowitz’s expose of the Real Housewives of New York City in The “Rich Bitch” really stood out to me. The reading stood out to me because of the many conflicting attitudes and situations presented in the article. I personally have never watched the Real Housewives because I didn’t feel the need to watch wealthy grown women make a big deal out of the littlest things. It always seemed excessive and ridiculous to have these types of…

of the curse words I could choose to write a four page paper on, bitch was my absolute number one choice. Bitch has been around for hundreds of years. Changing within the years of its usage, it’s become an insult. Though the word bitch is normally associated with negativity, but the word’s definition is “a female dog, fox, wolf, or otter.” Though the first definition isn’t necessarily associated with a negative use, the word bitch is typically used negatively. Between my home, school, and the…

connotations to share our feelings and shape others ' perceptions. While this type of communication is sometimes essential in the world of persuasion, it becomes strictly destructive when the difference or insecurity at play is a person 's gender. Bitch is not a “bad word” because it 's meant to offend; it 's bad because it turns the word woman into an insult. Identity based insults are often the most powerful because they are the most personal. The words that make us cringe are worthy of the…

Is it unpatriotic if athletes do not stand during the national anthem in protest of their beliefs? I will use the controversy around athletic protests as an example of Geertz' theory of anthropology as interpretation. Colin Kaepernick is an American football quarterback who did not stand during the playing of the national anthem during the entire football season for 2016-17. He was released from his role as quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers in 2016. He is currently a free agent and…

Firstly, I’ll discuss the various rhymes and figures of speech in (Nas’s: ‘Life’s a Bitch’). In lines 2-3, there are polysyllabic, end, and broken rhymes: ‘beginners’— ‘percenters’, ‘percenters’— ‘sinners’, ‘in us’ – ‘sinners’. Nas makes a connection with the “5 percenters”, which originated from the U.S. (Nation of Islam). Essentially, these rhymes convey the “black bodies” and how they endure significant hardship, while committing sins such as stealing, killing, or drug dealing. Line 4…

such as wearing one 's hair in a ponytail or jeans instead of a skirt more than once in a week, means exclusion from the inner circle. When looking at her own behavior, Cady realizes that the only reason she seemed like a bitch to a viewer outside is because she is “acting like a bitch” (Mean Girls). In this comment, Cady directly acknowledges the extent to which the identity she is currently performing is quite literally a performance. However, transformation also does not only function in one…

sudden breeze, automatically inhaling the smell of rubber, glancing to the left a large bulky man tells me to come over asking numerous of personal questions. Measuring my weight and BMI, I was over-weight. Coming home finding a book called Skinny Bitch by Kim Barnouin, reading cover to cover I found the answer to my weight problems, the word vegetarian popped out immediately. Researching online finding a YouTuber named Freelee the Banana Girl, explaining in each of her videos how it changed her…