Over-heard in the locker room at the ARC today:
Two girls who were seeing each other for the first time this quarter looked each other up and down before beginning the verbal conversation...
Girl 1: Ewwwwwww.....
Girl 2: What a loser!
Girl 1: Hey, bitch!
Girl 2: What up, ho?
It made me laugh, and I recalled several girlfriends with whom I'd use uniquely female insults as terms of affection. Then it made me ask myself, "Why?" Are we re-claiming those terms using them on our own (terms) and in some way lessening the destructive impact that men's use of the words has made? Someone has probably done a study on that, and if not, as soon as I am sufficiently alert to have a coherent thought in my head, maybe I'll examine that phenomenon in another post.
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