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- May 20, 2015, 7:14 p.m.
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Should probably write this now, I have fast and furious seven queued up and I might lose too many brain cells. To be fair to the franchise, I’ve lost brain doing other things as well.
I know the difference between “Fuck that” and “I’d fuck that”. In fact I might know fuck in every context, permutation, twisted and straight syntax, and possible future use. What I don’t understand is way both payback and life is a bitch.
Bitch was not used when I was a kid except in the strictest definition and even then rarely. Today it means everything from friend, girlfriend, to someone who is so cold they are idolized, to, well, shit I don’t know. There isn’t any sense or use where payback and life are a bitch.
I mean I understand what the sayings mean; Life’s a bitch means it’s not easy and bad thing happen, paybacks a bitch is a threat for some future retaliation that will be unpleasant. I don’t even know why a feminine case is used. Granted, English doesn’t quite do that the way other languages do, but bitch is pretty much feminine as are boats and airplanes. I have no idea why life and payback are feminine, or, in these cases what role bitch plays, because, honestly, in modern useage it could mean payback is a girlfriend and life has good fashion sense but is mean and cold.
Ok. Mistreating brain cells with pop culture. Go me.
Deleted user ⋅ May 20, 2015
My theory is that there is a testosterone-related connection to the use of bitch and that other word as pejorative terms, but I'm only a girl, so can't do much of that abstract kind of thinking. Hope you are well and getting along OK.
haredawg drools Deleted user ⋅ May 21, 2015
If that other word is what I'm thinking, that's still a harsh and sparsely used word in the states. In the UK, for some reason, it's used mostly towards males, I don't know why. In the states calling a straight male a bitch usually means that you are daring him to fight; in that respect, yeah, a lot of testosterone. Bitch is frequently used by females in the states and more often than not is a friendly term, or, at the very least is not used to incite violence. Men who refer to women as bitchs ...? Those we call either misogynists or virgins, there is some overlap.
Deleted user haredawg drools ⋅ May 21, 2015
YOu clearly know as mouch, if not more, than I do about this, and it may well be the case that "bitch" is used in a friendly sort of way by younger folk, and indeed I have heard it among elderly folk of my vintahe (64). I'm unable to overcome my own upbringing in that respect. YOu are right that in my opinion the one starting with c is used toward other males, as well as females, which baffles me absolutely. I mean I know that words can have several meanings, but in our culture than one is so charged with offence that you ...wl, I guess I mean I, could not say it in front of anyone at all without causing offence, and I find it hard to think that anyone .. oh dear, I guess I mean people like me ... would use it in public or AT someone they cared about without being sure offence would endue.
Wow, what a world. When I used to dream of studying linguistics seriously it has not occurred to me that one might end up being immersed in this sort of thing.
"And what did you do today, sweetheart?"
"Oh, well Dad, I ... um .. I studied .. er .. apostrophes, Dad."
No, I don't think I could do it.