By Any Other Name.

You know, sometimes I think one definition is enough for certain words.

I never cease to be baffled and amused when girls call - not their friends, not their enemies, but themselves, a 'B*tch'. Even more baffling still, they take pride in it.

All of us who are acquainted with the dictionary knows that 'b*tch' means (or originally meant) 'a female dog'. So why some girls call themselves the b-word is definitely beyond me.

But of course, I ought to know. I spotted somewhere in a friend's autograph book this entry by a fellow schoolmate defining 'B*tch' as such:

B - Beautiful
I - Intelligent
T - Talented
C - Charismatic/Charming/Compassionate (whichever it was)
H - Honest

Bitchware has other definitions which you can read for yourself.

Which I think is very weird, because that means we can now in effect call each other 'stupid':

S - Sexy
T - Talented
U - Unique
P - Passionate
I - Intelligent
D - Devoted

"You are so stupid."
"I'm STUPID and proud of it!"
"My son more stupid than yours lah."
"The Stupid Generation."

Of course, some ladies claim that to be a b*tch is to be sassy, dominating and direct. And I can't help but wonder which human bean has so successfully deluded the entire female race by managing to squeeze those adjectives out from a noun that originally meant 'a female dog'. And to think that a female dog has so many mating partners ... (though I must admit it isn't too far a description about today's ladies, sadly)

But seriously girls, I do think there are much better words you can use to describe your beautiful selves. Calling yourself a b*tch does not make you sound any more intelligent, or any more sassy - just b*tchier. Which is sad, and does not give you the dignity you deserve.


By the way female dogs are adorable. The animal ones, I mean.