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i dislike the use of "bitch" for female politicians and business leaders the same way i would dislike it if a racially-specific slur were used for black politicians and business leaders. that's what i expect of rational minded people, to evaluate if it would fly if you used the 'n' word. if 'n' wouldn't fly, why should any similar descriptor be okay?

basically i dislike any slur that picks on a specific aspect of a person's statistical information like gender or race or weight, for example. you could argue that some of insults people levy at male politicians are masculine in nature, but i would argue that many of the masculine terms we use in our culture tend to be "neutral" in perception. like how it's neutral to use "he" in a hypothetical description but it would become distinctly feminine if you used "she" in the same description.

interestingly, though, i don't have a problem with bitch as a general insult used among peers or members of the community. when it's not an authority situation where the "glass ceiling" is an issue. if it's just like some silly bitch at the grocery store who's holding up the express lane because she won't hang up her phone, i'm happy to call that silly bitch a silly bitch.