Thank you for sharing your experiences with me. I understand what you mean when you say your father can disarm you so easily but you fight on despite what he and other men say or do to you.

I too like the badness feeling of bitch. When men call women bitches, it can signal that they're afraid and threatened. It's nice not to be the one fearing for a change.

And I agree that Benedict's background and experiences with the word is going to be different. And as a man, he may need to be more careful about what words he uses to refer to women. I don't mind that he not use it, but I also am not afraid to disagree with his comment about it setting feminism back.