It Takes a "Bitch" to Stamp Down on "Twatitude"

"Bitches get stuff done," is (or should be) a central generative theme for our culture, our politics, and our economy in the coming decades.

Claiming and reframing such "derogatories" will definitely escalate culture wars and possess the stark potential to explode well beyond the "verbal".  Of course, this will further divide and silo us - and drive many more of us into novel versions of "safe spaces" for incubating new strengths and insights while also generating myriad forms of personal and social pathologies.  This is intoxicatingly inevitable - and rich with brave possibilities for forging new perceptions and connections our so brittle world.

"Bitch", of course, is now only one of the milder derogatories directed at women by males - and by other females.  And, regardless of the outcome of our current hyper-gendered presidential sextravaganza, females will need to steel themselves in ways that are still relatively unprecedented in our lamentably primitive public arena.  Underlying this is the increasing feminization of the workforce and its abandonment by a growing number of males.  The rise of transgender, non gender, "non binary" youth is likely both a desperate symptom AND a hopeful response to these self shredding tensions in our culture.

We will all need to steel ourselves while also cultivating new versions of self and mutual nurturing.  Failure there means we're trapped in deadly patterns of exploitative irresponsibility.

State capitalism, wage labor, and neo-imperialism may be hard-won advancements over the serfdom and slavery that blighted so many generations into the all to recent past, but we should all pray (and work to guarantee) that these are merely transitory historical stages well on their way to obsolescence.

Otherwise, the cockroaches are poised to overrun the wreckage left behind by our benighted species.