“Man, Sam is such a bitch!” is typically what you hear when the word bitch is being used but do people really know the true meanings of bitch. The word first originated from Germanic times and then lead to old english as “bicce” but now in modern english as “bitch”. The word has many meanings but it started off meaning a female dog for breeders and such. Nowadays we all know the word “bitch” as an irrational, spiteful, and crazy female. An example of a irrational spiteful woman would be the actor Orla Brady, as her role Lydia in the tv show of “Into the Badlands”. She's married to the leader of a part of land, Quinn , and since he’s the leader he has the right to marry as many people as he wants. So as he marries new people she becomes furious at her husband. She knows she can't leave him and she knows his new wives have no choice but to marry him since he can easily have them killed. She becomes spiteful to the new wives and secretly poisons them. She kills them from the inside but makes it look like a natural cause of death. At the end of the day though she was being a bitch to them by taking her anger and jealousy out on the new wives but yet they have done nothing wrong but follow orders. …show more content…
Females take pride in being a “bitch”. It's a new identity for themselves that they use to stand up for themselves. For example in school I see boys constantly talk down to the girls but then I see the few that fight back and say “ Yeah I'm a bitch and I don't care I'll kick your ass”. I don't just see it in school but notice it as well as females fight for equal treatment in the world. Theres the usual crowd saying that the woman are just being woman but they embrace the negativity and keep fighting. Being called bitch is a energy driver that moves woman to reach new
In the essay “Bossy,’ the Other B-Word,” Sheryl Sandberg and Anna Maria Chavez express the idea of women being told they are bossy as being a huge issue, in a constructive manner. Both authors explained thoroughly why they have the right to speak as an expert on the subject; it was an effective use of ethos. The claim is well put together and cleverly implied. The evidence they incorporated was well thought-out and supported the claim in all sides of the argument. They successfully wrapped up the entire essay and claim with an astounding conclusion. This essay is a well constructed argumentative essay.
“You think,’ she said, ‘you can buy me off with this book?’ […] ‘You and your husband. Sitting up here.’ Now she became spiteful. More spiteful and evil than she thought herself capable” (262).
Rapper Trina’s March 2000 single “Da baddest b*tch”, proclaimed her as the Queen of Hip hop. “Da baddest b*tch” was a controversial song that made way for many criticisms. The rapper’s song endorsed the idea of women referring to themselves as “bad b*tches”, promoted promiscuous behavior and encouraged females both young and old to use men for money.
I had read an essay called, “I Just Wanna Be Average” by Mike Rose. The essay was about Rose revisiting his high school experience. He explains his adventure through school reflecting on his education, learning environment, & behaviors of students/teachers. Also he talks about the motivation or lack thereof in him and his fellow peers reflecting on them just wanting to be average.
Later on Tybalt the cousin of Juliet kills Mercutio and then in spite Romeo kills Tybalt. Then when Lord Capulet promises Juliet to Paris, Juliet drinks a potion that will make her fall into a deathlike sleep. Afterwords Romeo kills Paris when he finds him visiting Juliet's tomb. These are all examples where hatred causes rash decisions to be made within The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.
When stereotypes about women are thrown down on paper many women (usually called feminist) take offense to them. They don't believe women are the weaker sex, or think the man is the worker of the household. They don't believe a male should put women on a pedestal, they just want to be equal. They starve for equality and criticize those with different perspectives on how it should be
In the essay, “You Are What You Say”, by Robin Lakoff, she explains how certain words can be used to degrade an individual. Lakoff makes clear that a girl is someone “. . . who is . . . too immature and too far from real life to be entrusted with responsibilities or with decisions of any serious or important nature” (Lakoff, “You Are What You Say”, pg.3). A girl is someone who cannot be taken seriously. A girl is simply incapable of running a women’s errand, because they are incredibly immature. Yet, women are still referred to as girls, since calling someone a woman is “embarrassing”. She also elaborates on being called a “lady” and how that is degrading as well. She used the example of calling a woman doctor a “lady doctor”, which is extremely degrading since no one calls a man doctor a “gentleman doctor”. Being called a “lady” also implies that she is helpless and not someone to be taken seriously. So, language can and is used to degrade
In both Ann Petry’s “Like a Winding Sheet” and Kate Chopin’s “Desiree’s Baby” the protagonist is also the antagonist. In the story, Like a Winding Sheet its Mae’s husband, Johnson, and in the story Desiree’s Baby it’s Desiree’s husband, Armand. In the beginning of both stories their husband seem to be loving, caring husbands who would never hurt their family. Then, the stories turn in a twist when the husband became insolent and angry toward their wives, but they were feeling furious towards themselves. Johnson was repeatedly getting abused from the outside world and in his mind and he starts to espouse a dismissive image that turned to anger against his wife and eventually he kills her. Armand was angry at his wife because his son turned out
But this is a battle that black women cannot fight alone. We did not create the problem and so we need those in positions of power to do their part to eradicate systemic misogynoir, and to step back so others can step up. We need white people to listen, learn, create and enact action plans to smash systemic misogynoir. Black women have done their part by stubbornly, bravely sharing their stories. It’s time for everyone else to step up.
Gross did various researches about the word “bitch” and its usage. She discusses about the word “Bitch” and how the word is used when a man feels threatened: (148). When She implies the word “bitch” is use as a weapon for degrading and to denounce
In the article, “Blue-Collar Brilliance” by Mike Rose, he begins with an anecdote of his mother working her blue-collar job at a diner as a waitress. Rose vividly describes her common day that is packed with a constant array of tedious tasks she has to accomplish to make her living. The authors goal appears to be making the reader appreciate the hard work of blue-collar workers because society places a stereotype on them as being less intelligent than someone with more schooling or even a white-collar job: “Our cultural iconography promotes the muscled arm, sleeve rolled tight against biceps, but no brightness behind the eye, no inmate that links hand and brain” (282). I agree with Rose’s conclusion that if we continue to place a stigma on
...rms of power and source of pride in society. Emphasizing sexism in language and rising the concern with words can be a vital feminist strategy to provoke social change (Weatherall, 2002). Language can produce a false imagination and represents women and men unequally, as if members of one sex were somehow less wholly human, less complex, and has fewer rights than members of the other sex. Sexist language also characterizes serotypes of women and men, sometimes to the disadvantage of both, but more often to the disadvantage of women. (Wareing & Thomas, 2012). As a result, it is necessary that individuals have the right to define, and to redefine as their lives unfold, their own gender identities, without regard to genitalia, assigned birth sex, or initial gender role. Language about women is not a nonaligned or an insignificant issue but profoundly a political one.
Women have been historically treated as less-than-equal to men. Typically, women make less money than men and are subjected to jobs and duties that come along with womanhood, such as being a mother, cleaning, and cooking. If a woman were to stray from her moral obligations, then she would likely receive some form of negative backlash by her fellow peers, especially men. Many men feel that they are sexually entitled to women and it is often reflected in the language they use to refer to women. Robert Baker, in his essay “Pricks and Chicks”, argues that the identification of women reflects our conception of them, and because our conception of women is male chauvinistic, the root of our problem lies with the conception of sex in general. In this essay I will argue that the words that we use to refer to women such as; bitch, cunt, babe, etc. are almost purely negative in the views of the female gender. These words usually refer to something dirty and sexual, and this association between these words and women shows that we define women as well as something dirty and sexual. Not only do these words objectify women, but they also contend to keep women at a social stand-still, by forbidding them to have any true progress in the competition of the sexes. However, one could argue that men are also subjected to sexual name-calling when words like prick, dick, ass, asshole, etc. and that the problem is equivalent to that of women’s. Regardless, women are sexually objectified substantially more than men and the issue does not have the same effect on men than it does on women.
This is when having 'resting bitch face' can be dangerous. Depending on the type of person we're around, this type of facial expression can get us verbally and/or physically assaulted because we, unlike a neurotypical person, cannot simply brighten up and brush it off when someone points it
In poetry, the speaker is not necessarily the author but is the voice of the poem that conveys his or her situations or emotions. In the beginning of the poem, the speaker meets her ex lover “after all these years” (Kizer line 1). Kizer uses an extended metaphor of the speaker’s inner self as a dog, more specifically, a female dog, which explains the title, “Bitch”. The speaker’s inner bitch reveals emotions of being wounded, furious, and affectionate towards her former lover all at once. The speaker is miserable in how she has to hold back the dog. She says, “as I drag you off by the scruff” (Line 33). This gives the reader the imagery of a dog being pulled away from something the dog aspired to do, illustrating the miserable and wounded tone. The speaker is