If we are going to get all bent out of shape about this, and I'm not saying that we shouldn't let's also get real about it. Big deal a big name radio guy made an ugly comment, it happens all day everyday, rappers, kids of all color etc.. all trying to be hip by talking ghetto and trying to sound hard.
It is not uncommon for teenage girls and young women into their mid twenties to call each other bitch, ho, hooker etc... I'm not saying that it is right. But it is happening. My daughter is in kindergarten at a catholic school. Many of the parents don't know each other yet or are just getting to know each other. You'd think the level of etiquette in such an environment would be slightly elevated if anything (maybe I'm delusional). Yet about a month into the school year a young mom (white, mid - twenties) comes up to another mom (my wife's friend, white, early thirties) waiting for her child and says "yo bitch how's it going?". (it's a good thing it didn't happen to me or to my wife in my presence because I would have probably responded with something equally eloquent like "who the F__K are you to address me or my wife as a bitch, do I know you? Then you better back off and find some F--ing manners really fast" at which point my wife would have crawled into her purse to hide. I tend to be a little more aggressive and abrasive than she finds comfortable) My wife was standing there and heard it. The two women did not know each other other than having seen each other dropping of and picking up children. My wife and her friend discussed after the fact and the woman was offended and taken totally by surprise that someone she didn't know would feel comfortable addressing her in such a manner. Yet the current culture especially amongst the young find it increasingly acceptable. I think it started with acceptance of "bitch / Biotch" in conversation and has elevated to hooker, ho, etc... You get the same thing although it tends to be even more along ethnic lines and more male oriented in the use of the "n" word. "yo nigga ... " how's my nigga" etc... Is it offense, hip slang, a term of endearment? What makes it acceptable? When? and Why? I'm sorry but I don't need to be that hip and I believe a little courtesy would go a long ways. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:232265 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
