shlyukha, kurva, shalava

[Jules Levin]

At 03:44 PM 10/25/2007, you wrote:
>In situations of hierarchy in some bureaucracy, corporate office, 
>street gang, or whatever - subject to change when there is jockeying 
>for power - "bitch" may refer to someone (X) who is subservient to, 
>under the thumb of someone else (Y). Unless X is by nature a 
>lickspittle, he/she probably doesn't like it - there is a note of 
>menace - while Y glories in it. Y might say "You're my bitch," 
>meaning X has to give in, do as he/she is ordered to, act the slavey 
>or lackey as it were. If the relationship is not that blatant, and 
>is even voluntary on X's part, and Y doesn't actually use such a 
>phrase, the associates of X and Y might snicker among themselves and 
>refer to X as "Y's bitch." Or, on the other side, X might say 
>defensively "I'm nobody's bitch!"
>Clearly this usage is ultimately of misogynistic origin, but I'll 
>leave it at that. Someone who is fluent in hip-hop/gangsta rap may 
>have more to say on the matter.
>Mr Kim Braithwaite, Translator

This is prison slang in origin, with the bitch designating the KOGO 
of KTO KOGO.  Not misogynistic since it is used in all-male context.
Jules Levin

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