BITCH

Gross’s Main point in her short piece “Bitch” is that the definition of bitch is becoming solely used to define a women and has been generalized so heavily that freedom of expression and the word bitch are being grouped together.  Gross writes out the different definitions of the word bitch spanning many years. She also talks about what many writers and different people think of the word bitch. Everyone used the word bitch in a different manner but they all generalize women with a bad connotation. For instance, Gross talk about Lady Ashley and her book The Sun Also Rises and a character in the book as bitch “…because she overturns the male/female nexus” (Gross 82) . A woman who tries to escape the stereotype of a quite man-pleasing person is called a bitch. However in the black community saying “hey Bitch” is somewhat accepted and is commonly used. In Gross’s search for the meaning of the word bitch, she intends for the people to truly understand what they saying when they use the word and how they are downgrading females in general.

This piece is pretty interesting and informative on understanding the many ways the word bitch is used. I feel like she right in that she’s trying to make people aware that many women are downgraded for expressing themselves or even doing nothing, but bitch is just a word. Philosophically speaking, even if there wasn’t a word called bitch, there would still probably be a word to express how men feel about women that’s definition would be eerily similar to bitch. So making us aware of the many meanings of the word bitch is just basically stating the many ways that women across the world are discriminated against. Lastly to me personally, I think the word bitch currently more than 15 years later is used to describe both guys and girls but is still used more commonly with females.