Bitch

There are some words we just don’t use anymore.  We recognize that they are unjust and hurtful.

There is a stop sign on their usage. Disobeying the order is met with adverse consequence.

We no longer use the r-word in reference to those intellectually challenged or the “f” or q-word to refer to gays. We all understand that the n-word is not acceptable nor any other noun/adjective that demeans any ethnic or religious group.

But lately I have been bothered by the fact that no one seems to be offended by the b-word in reference to women. Men and women toss that word around in the same flippant manner in which rappers use the n-word--except that rappers only tolerate the noun among themselves.

Women don’t even do that. They tolerate the derogative term from everyone.

In this so-called politically correct world the b-word still remains appropriate.

Jay-Z sings I’ve got 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one.

I have to wonder how Beyonce and Blue Ivy feel about those chosen words.

Because the b-word is the n-word—only worse because slavery ended for African Americans in 1863. And at this moment in time all across the world and in this country women are still slaves—ask the 3 women held against their will by Ariel Castro for 10 years.

Amanda Berry, Gina Dejesus and Michelle Knight were Ariel Castro’s bitches.

And what John Lennon sang in 1972 sadly still holds true: Woman is the nigger of the world.

Bitch is in every way a sexist epithet.

And the light bulb needs to go off.