The Definition of “Bitch”
...age your reputation or publicly criticizes your make-up and clothes. A bitch is a girl who flirts with your boyfriend at the football games while you are standing right next to him. She is someone who creates arguments over petty issues. Then Brooke and I laughed to find that we fell in these descriptions at one point or another, but every girl has her moments. Next, I asked my dad to give me his analysis of the word. To him, an obsessive handyman and landscaper, a bitch is more of a thing rather than a person. You often can find him describing a tight screw or leaky faucet as a bitch. In the yard, a bitch is a bush that is too tall to trim without requiring some extra effort. It seems to him that a bitch is something that is difficult to do, but can in fact be done with some exertion. Finally, I consulted my kind-hearted mom. She sat on the phone in pensive silence for minutes and finally came to the conclusion that she could not think of a single instance of “something so bitchy.” But being her daughter, I think I am able to answer for her. My mom is a secretary a local hospital and I have seen the grumpy old women with whom she must work. If my mom shed her compassionate robe for a minute, she would see that “bitch” is not a person or thing, but often times a verb meaning “to complain.” “Bitch” is what her coworker does while flipping through a magazine while the prin...