"Really B*TCH?"

For the past few days I have been thinking about what I should make this blog post about. I had a few ideas in mind but one classmate's blog post greatly influenced my decision. That's when I decided to write about the word “b*tch” and how it degrades women in any setting no matter who says it. Now don’t get me wrong, I have used this word before in heated arguments but it was not gender discriminatory in the sense that I have referred to both men and women as being a "b*tch", not just women. As the years went by I really started hating the word. It made me feel so disrespectful to whomever I was calling it too and even disrespected hearing it even when it wasn't directed towards me. I wouldn’t call my worse enemy a “b*tch”. The word “b*tch” is an insult no matter how you use it. I honestly think I began to lose faith in my generation when the trend of putting the word “bad” in front of it became a a highly praised compliment. Like who said that was ok?! Who said being called a bad b*tch” should be a compliment now and not an insult? Last time I checked the word “bad” was not used for anything good. Prime example would be bad children or bad people but bad "b*tch" is ok even though it still refers to people? I guess it is ok when you put two negative things together it is now positive but life isn't math. Matter of fact, Trina the rapper has a song called “Da Baddest B*tch”. Maybe it was Trina that started this trend because she calls herself that all the time. I think the worst part of the whole thing is that woman are using the term more than men but get offended when a man calls them that. Even when it is not in an offensive way, these females still get offended. Like he is just calling you what you call yourself. Wale could not have said it better than in the song “The Kramer” when he said “Bitches ain't shit, but women ain't bitches, See, women are the queens, and bitches just bitches, And bitches say bitch like bitch is not offensive, When niggas say bitch, all of the sudden, they offended”. From that small piece from his verse he is saying everything I am saying (listen to the whole song it is amazing). We could even look at the fact that Lil Wayne tried to make the term sound better in the song called “A Dedication” from his Dedication 3 Mixtape. He couldn’t even say anything nice but then had the nerve to thank his mother. I am not sure what is going on with our generation and thinking that it is ok to call a female a “b*tch” just because you put a special label in front of it. Let us ask the ladies of this generation this if a man calls another man a “bad b*tch or even just a b*tch” is it a still a compliment? Here is a video with exactly what I am talking about.