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Why It's Okay To Be A B*tch

"Truth be told, women need to be bitches to be successful. This merely means that women need to be passionate, determined and not willing to take no for an answer. This is what the definition of bitch should be."

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Why It's Okay To Be A B*tch
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“Know what? Bitches get stuff done.” Tina Fey.

It tends to be women who are strongly determined to work hard and not put up with nonsense that are the ones to be called "bitches." Women are expected to be nice, sweet, kind and polite. Whenever the opposite is shown, women are ostracized for not staying stereotypically correct. Thus resulting in the usage of the term "bitch":

"A malicious, unpleasant, selfish person, especially a woman."

"A lewd woman."

"Disparaging and offensive. Any woman."

Whenever a woman steps away from the ideal delicate sweetness that society has inflicted upon her, her chances of being called a bitch increases.

In an interview with Forbes, Anea Bogue, founder of REALgirl®, discussed the way girls are being raised and the impact that has on their personalities later in life.

"The 'girls are sugar and spice and everything nice' adage that [society is] programmed with leads us to raise girls who are what I call 'pleasers,'" Bogue said to Forbes. "We teach our girls in a variety of ways that being nice, avoiding conflict, not upsetting others and not challenging the status quo are all part of being likeable, desirable, successful girl- and one day woman."

Society even attempts to create a “foolproof” system to eliminate the amount a woman could be called a bitch by indoctrinating children through the toys they play with in hopes that they stay with the stereotypes. This is clear even in the toy aisles at the stores - society paints a pretty clear pink picture of how they want their ladies to act. Taking a walk down a store’s aisles proves such. The toy aisle in every store is most definitely clad with pink, purple, princesses, Barbies, tea sets, kitchens, etc. These items have a concept and dogma attached to them. They portray that girls should be sweet princesses while the boys tackle real ideas. Anything else that alludes to the idea of a science, weaponry, athletics, the outdoors, and much more is sentenced to the boys' toy aisle.

For many, when a girl does not match these ideas of eternal niceness there is shock. If anything, living life with these stereotypes only hurts both men and women. The mere concept of equality becomes strained and from such a young age this is ingrained and women are expected to apologize when they act out of line.

Emma Watson once said, “I feel like young girls are told that they have to a princess and fragile. It’s bullshit. I identify much more with being a warrior - a fighter. If I was going to be a princess, I’d be a warrior princess. Definitely.”

It's okay not to conform to the stereotype.

It's okay to not smile all the time.

It's okay not to be a princess who sits around.

It's okay to be a warrior.

It's okay to fight for what you want.

It's okay to enjoy science and math and be good at it.

It's okay to say “no” and mean it.

It's okay not to apologize.

It's okay to be a bitch.

Truth be told, women need to be bitches to be successful. This merely means that women need to be passionate, determined and not willing to take no for an answer. This is what the definition of bitch should be.

“Be driven with purpose. Be relentless in your alignment with excellence. Pay no mind to the disimpassioned impotent haters. Dr. Steve Marabali.

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