well, i don't watch that show so i can't tell you that, but i will never be okay with using slut and whore to demean women. things i have serious rage-filled feelings on forever. as do you, clearly. and, honestly, i think it's totally within your rights to call people out on that. you're not telling them what they can or can't do so much as telling them not to be terrible people?

i do think there is a problem with who gets labeled an hbic and who doesn't and fandom reactions to that. i will definitely agree with that. fandom is really fucked in its way of deciding what female characters merit appreciation and who don't; i function largely outside of most fandom circles so i have no problem with it but i understand people who do. i don't think there's anything wrong with reclaiming bitch as a concept, since it's been traditionally thrown at women who stand up for themselves and that should be reclaimed and i don't like leaving words with people who sling them at me, but i know a lot of people who disagree with me. i'm a big reclaiming fan, though. and i run fuckyeahfiercebitches and i just post awesome ladies there, so i... clearly operate outside of most fandom usage. i think that flowerings was saying last week, though, that she has the same issues with the usage of 'fierce' (or maybe even fierce bitch i can't remember) as you do with hbic. which is sort of where this paragraph comes from, actually. the way she talked about it. whic his fine, fandoms are shit places and i understand forever having issues with them, i just have different issues with them than you two do. :)

... this comment is much longer than i meant for it to be originally sorry. :D