BITCH

I used to hate this word. I still hate this word. I'm getting over it. I no longer want it to have power over me. To incite rage in me at it's sound. To cause me to step out of character and enter into a screaming match with random guy on Franklin Street. For this is, from Gayl Jones' Mosquito, what men call the women they cannot control. And I am uncontrollable. So call me a bitch, I'll respond, "Ya damn right and proud off it!"