the word bitch

BitchTapes: Bitch Pride

Audio post by Sara Reihani, Submitted by Sara Reihani on December 18, 2009 - 11:56am; tagged 9:00 News, Be Your Own Pet, bitch pride, BitchTapes, Bratmobile, Lady Sovereign, lily allen, M.I.A., rap, rock, Soko, The Coathangers, The Germs, The Plasticines, The Raveonettes, the word bitch, Velocity Girl, X-Ray Spex, Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

I bring you a collection of songs that represent the spirit of bitchdom; a collection of songs about anger, freedom, violence, jealousy, frustration, fantasy, revenge, pride, individualism and burping; in short, songs about the American Dream.

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For Realz?: It's A Noun, It's A Verb, It's The Amazing Race Next Week

TV post by Rita Hao, Submitted by Rita Hao on April 12, 2009 - 10:11pm; tagged reality TV, The Amazing Race, the word bitch.

As your feminist reality TV blogger, I've got the standard (short) list of complaints about The Amazing Race to run through: why hasn't an all female team ever won in the 14 seasons the show's been on, are the women being unfairly edited to look more shrewish under pressure than the men, etc etc., but I've got a new one for you: looks like we're going to have a discussion over the impact of the word "bitch" next week!! You can hear the whole staff now: "AGAIN?" [Note: I would have linked to Andi's awesome CNN snippet on the same topic with Rick Sanchez, but I can't find it on YouTube! Well worth watching.]

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