History Of The Word Bitch

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Middle school can be a hard time. Especially 6th grade with all the changes and all these new kids. unfortunately for some kids it means a whole new vocabulary that includes the word “Bitch”. The dictionary defines the word bitch as “a malicious, unpleasant, selfish person, especially a woman.” But when someone calls you a bitch they try and play it off as the latin meaning of “a female dog”. Which is still offensive. People use the word bitch in a bunch in different situations whether it's good or bad, so maybe this is why people think it's ok to call a woman that. But now a days the world just overlook that insult and don't take it personally because it's such a common thing, and it's used so much in social media. People need to understand just …show more content…

The word bitch has a ton of different means but the most common is the definition i gave earlier, and these “definitions” were made in the 21st century. In the 1900’s the only use for word was to describe a female dog. But a couple years later it started to be used to feminize men. Thus starting a long road to the definition that we know today. As the years went in 1960 it started to be more focused about woman. But in the 1960’s it was used as a compliment through rock ‘n’ roll and pop culture and was seen as empowering. But as woman started moving out of the kitchen and into the real world people found it easy to bring woman down by using the word bitch in the 2000’s. Because people still use the word bitch to demean women and try to bring them down. 65 percent of American women report experiencing being called names including bitch in their lifetimes. (According to bitchmedia). This proves that more than half of of the american work “reported” being called bitch. There's probably a higher percentage of woman but they just didn't report it. This shows how much of a problem it really is in the US, and probably word

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