Word: bitches
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Talkative?: Told Connie Chung that her son called Hillary Rodham Clinton "a bitch...
...family incidents contributed a certain spontaneity to the new Speaker's week. He blew up over the TV interview in which Connie Chung elicited from his mother the whispered confession that Gingrich had called the First Lady "a bitch." "Connie Chung should apologize," Newt said. And then, at Newt's moment of triumph, Bob Gingrich, his father, chose not to join in a standing ovation. Newt has admitted that his relationship with his adoptive father has always been distant. Newt had called Bob a few weeks earlier to break the ice. "I want to thank you for being an influence...
...been a less abusive word than "bitch," Newt Gingrich might not have been thrown off-message on the biggest day of his political life. Long after the debate is over about whether Connie Chung should have broadcast Kathleen Gingrich's recollection of what her son thought of the First Lady, the epithet of choice against uppity women will hang in the air, a reminder that women have not come such a long way. Like the word penis (before one was cut off), bitch (before the Speaker's mother used it) seldom found its way onto the nightly news...
Even men with character flaws as deep as the Grand Canyon feel entitled to hurl the insult. When Mayor Marion Barry was caught smoking crack in a sting operation mounted by the male-dominated FBI, his first reaction was, "Bitch set me up." On the famed 911 tape, O.J. reportedly shouted at Nicole, "I don't want you in my house, you bitch...
There is no equivalent epithet about men. Bastard and son of a bitch have less sting, in part because society expects -- and rewards -- toughness in men. The only comparable insult to hurl at a man is to question his manliness. The charge George Bush resented the most was being called "wimp...