What I’m interested in is why we’re not interested in what happened right before such-and-such woman acted like a crazy bitch. It is a nasty little word-prison and we are made to dread its confines.Įvery time I raise my voice in the market at my CB of a daughter, or say something rather provocative to a person who has demeaned me, I remember to catch myself, to look around and check who has heard, what khaki-panted man has now won himself the right to say he saw me in the street, at the market, he saw me yelling at my child, my husband, the greengrocer, and that man can say, “Yes, I saw that woman, I remember her, that one, and she was a real crazy bitch.” I don’t mean that for real, because I don’t think the phrase “crazy bitch” means anything beyond its derogatory raison d’être – it exists purely to make women fear their own rage, their own feelings.
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