I agree with both of your points completely. I see what PETA was going for... there are females who think it's cool to call themselves or be considered by their friends to be "bitchy." Having grown up with all women, I've been baffled by it many times. But then again, some guys think it's cool to be a jackass. I think PETA is just trying to appeal to every stereotype on the face of the earth.
By the way, is anyone else getting kinda sick of PETA's borderline obsession with Pamela Anderson? She's everywhere, on their website, in their magazine... I don't believe she gives AR a good name. Regardless of how she might truy be as a person, she comes off as rather flaky, and intentionally plays air-headed bimbos on television! Argh...
Does anyone actually see her on a PETA commercial and think, "If Pamela Anderson believes in this whole PETA thing, it has GOT to be worth my consideration."
She surely has the choice of saying "No thanks, I'd prefer a classier role." But yeah, the producers of any given show are going to choose their actors carefully.
I'm also sick of this whole "bitch" thing. You'll see bumper stickers that say "Number 1 Bitch" or girl who'll say "So what? I know I'm a bitch, blah blah blah." Like it's okay or something. I'm guessing they think bitch means assertive. It's pretty much the same with the whole "nerd" thing, though. It's not a positive thing and I'm sure people wouldn't go around calling themselves all these negative things if they knew the real definition.
When you look at the history of language you realize that words are what people have made of them. Words change meaning all the time. You could change a word's meaning or create a new word right now if you wanted to! It's fun! (I recently created the word wildspace to refer to an open space in an urbanized area that has a naturally diverse range of wildlife living in it, as compared to a monocultured lawn. Now that word is in Wikipedia. Who knows, it might catch on...) Now that we are living in the "information age" it's even easier to affect change in our language. In ten years the two words "a lot" may become one word if the trend in smooshing the letters together continues (though I wish that wouldn't happen).
As for me, I'm a geek. And I'm fat. These are not negative words when I use them, they simply represent reality. And who am I to argue with reality? To me, I could be all offended and feel bad about myself when people call me fat or geeky, or I could say, "Yes, I am! You are absolutely correct! I'm so proud
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Thin and beautiful are not necessarily the same thing!
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By the way, is anyone else getting kinda sick of PETA's borderline obsession with Pamela Anderson? She's everywhere, on their website, in their magazine... I don't believe she gives AR a good name. Regardless of how she might truy be as a person, she comes off as rather flaky, and intentionally plays air-headed bimbos on television! Argh...
Does anyone actually see her on a PETA commercial and think, "If Pamela Anderson believes in this whole PETA thing, it has GOT to be worth my consideration."
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Does she, or does our media pigeonhole women who look like PA into such roles?
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As for me, I'm a geek. And I'm fat. These are not negative words when I use them, they simply represent reality. And who am I to argue with reality? To me, I could be all offended and feel bad about myself when people call me fat or geeky, or I could say, "Yes, I am! You are absolutely correct! I'm so proud ( ... )
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gook /guk/ Pronunciation[gook]
-noun Slang (disparaging and offensive).
1. a native of Southeast Asia or the South Pacific, esp. when a member of an enemy military force.
2. any dark-skinned foreigner, esp. one from the Middle East.
3. anyone who is offensive to others because of stupidity, coarseness, etc.
[Origin: 1930-35; of uncert. orig; cf. earlier googoo, gugu, as opprobrious term for a Filipino, and perh. comparable relationship of kook to cuckoo]
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geek /gik/ Prounciation[geek ( ... )
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