"slang" (1746); favorable insults

[Alison Murie]

  Jocelyn Limpert  wrote:
                                                                 "
Also, I think nothing of
referring to a woman as "bitch," but try not to refer to black women as
bitches as they seem to find it very offensive, whereas white women do
not
interpret it the same way."
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Hunh?  This 78-yr-old white female finds "bitch" as applied to women
extremely
offensive.  Since the old fart cohort is pretty big in these times,
I'd guess that to
generalize inoffensiveness to white women is a mistake.
(I do say "son of a bitch" as a general purpose expletive, and use
"bitch" as a
pejorative noun about (e.g.) something difficult.)
AM

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