Well the issue with Lori truly is based on her infidelity. (But it's infidelity to a man she thought was dead, so for me that doesn't compute at all.)

I guess it goes beyond the hbic thing too. Girls who call their friends bitches probably very often use (or at least THINK of) that word to describe other females who they dislike or who they disapprove of. So even if it is a reclaiming of the word to mean something more positive, I don't feel that it actually works in practice.

I think fierce bitch and hbic are really just synonyms don't you suppose?

Sorry for the edits.