Yeah, you know I love and respect Carlin - in fact, I was so eager to respond to your third paragraph I totally missed the last one - and what I initially wrote spoke to both context and intent. After previewing, backspaced post-haste! ...but dig we see this similarly.
As for Miles...doubt he was looking for trouble with that title. Dude's music never struck me that way, guessing you too.
Plus, "bitchin" is kind of an 80s stoner thing
Bitch though, often hurled.
What makes this tough is that in hip hop circles- particularly black hip hop circles- the use (or abuse) of the word "bitch" is defended strongly as something cultural. And that's where it gets tricky. When is it ok? When not? For example, in Jim Jarmusch's excellent film, Ghost Dog, there are hip hop pieces that use the word bitch a number of times. I can't imagine Jarmusch or RZA or Forest Whitaker as being sexist womanizers are abusers and yet to me, with my somewhat limited exposure to the music, it sounds demeaning. And in some circles I'm pretty sure I'd have my fuzzy dice tied in a knot for even suggesting that it is.
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Yeah, you know I love and respect Carlin - in fact, I was so eager to respond to your third paragraph I totally missed the last one - and what I initially wrote spoke to both context and intent. After previewing, backspaced post-haste! ...but dig we see this similarly.
As for Miles...doubt he was looking for trouble with that title. Dude's music never struck me that way, guessing you too.
Plus, "bitchin" is kind of an 80s stoner thing
Bitch though, often hurled.
What makes this tough is that in hip hop circles- particularly black hip hop circles- the use (or abuse) of the word "bitch" is defended strongly as something cultural. And that's where it gets tricky. When is it ok? When not? For example, in Jim Jarmusch's excellent film, Ghost Dog, there are hip hop pieces that use the word bitch a number of times. I can't imagine Jarmusch or RZA or Forest Whitaker as being sexist womanizers are abusers and yet to me, with my somewhat limited exposure to the music, it sounds demeaning. And in some circles I'm pretty sure I'd have my fuzzy dice tied in a knot for even suggesting that it might be.
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
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