I read about about this
I thought I'd pose a question about whether Kamala should turn this misogynistic insult back against Trump. I have no doubt Trump has used this and far more demeaning and crude terms to refer to women. After all, he's on tape bragging about what he can do to a woman's privates (using an objectifying word).
I know that the word b***h can be used as a pejorative by both men and women to insult someone. I also know that it can be a term of feminist empowerment, solidarity, and friendsship between women and gay men.
I thought I'd do a web search to find an article about this and was pleased to find this article which was published in The Spyglass, the student newspaper of Westridge High School of Girls in Pasadena, CA:
Opinion: The Powerful B*tch: How the “Curse Word” is Actually a Compliment
The author begins:
When I started high school, I lost count of the number of curse words I heard on a daily basis. I didn’t expect to hear “bitch” a lot, but I was surprised by the number of times that word casually came up in conversation. At Westridge, we focus on empowering young women, so I didn’t expect to hear the word as often as I did.
Through the years, the word “bitch” has evolved from a demeaning word that discredits women to a feminist term of endearment that unifies them. There are also different ways to use it. For example, bitchin’, as in doing amazing things, and to bitch, as in to complain. Feminists started to reappropriate “bitch” around the 1990s. Elizabeth Wurtzel wrote the book Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Womenin 1998. Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler founded Bitch magazine in 1996, and when asked why they chose that name, they explained how “it would be great to reclaim the word ‘bitch’ for strong, outspoken women, much the same way that ‘queer’ has been reclaimed by the gay community.”
I added another word that Kamala could use to preface the so-called "curse word."
Commerce being what it is I can see a t-shirt like the one shown above with the words "Kamala is a" included.
Kamala can turn this insult back against Trump if she incorporates referring to herself this way at a rally. On the other hand it is possible that just to ignore him will irritate him more. Trump thrives on attention and he gets a thrill by knowing his insults get to people. This could be playing into his hand even though his campaign spokesman said he never uses that word.
If Kamala does take ownership of the term it will make the news. I'd advise her to use it once and see if it becomes a meme.
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