#forceful

“I need feminism because… being loud and forceful doesn’t make me a bitch”

Um… it sort of does. 

Does anyone know how language works anymore? It’s a way of communicating with words that can be clearly interpreted others. Those words have meanings, and sometimes those meanings can adopt other meanings or evolve to mean something completely different, which is why you must also take into consideration the situation and context.

Now, just because a word itself can be used in a derogatory way, does not make the word itself derogatory. Take for example the word ‘gay’. ‘Gay’ is most commonly communicated and interpreted as a word to describe someone’s sexual orientation. (‘Homosexual’ works as well, but who has time for pronouncing 5 syllables?) However, ‘gay’ can also be used in a derogatory way or old-fashioned sense, in which case the context that the word is being used in determines the meaning of the word itself. 

When people call you a ‘bitch’ when you act loudly and forcefully, they do not mean you are literally a female dog, or that you are some sort of “pimp’s bitch” (aka hoe), because that is not the context they are using the word in. 

Being loud and forceful are two very unpleasant traits, and if the word ‘bitch’ is commonly used and interpreted within context to describe an unpleasant person (which it is), then that is one word that suits as an adjective. Alternative words that suit are: obnoxious, arrogant, annoying, overbearing, tiring, unpleasant etc.  

At the end of the day, regardless of what word they use, people are communicating to each other that they don’t like you for your loud and forceful behaviour. 

-fraudulentfeminist

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