I was watching a conversation via twitter between my little sister and her friend. I know my sisters friend and like her very much. But what they kept writing back and forth I didn’t like at all.
What is the deal with how teenage females talk to each other these days? They use very degrading terms in such a playful manner. Like it’s somehow ok to call your good friend “whore, bitch, ass” and some other terms I can’t type. Didn’t we fight years ago to stop terms like this from being used towards women in music videos, movies and in our communities? So how is it now our young girls use it towards each other and allow young men to use it when talking to them?
Now some people might think this is just a black women issue and problem since most derogatory terms tend to be direct towards us. But here’s the thing that people don’t stop to think about. While it might have started with degrading black women it will eventually be used towards ALL women.
There is no derogatory terms based on race. Disrespect for one race of women will lead to disrespect for all. That’s right, if you’re an Asian, White, Hispanic, etc women then you’ll be called a bitch also.
That by itself is a problem but more then that, I’m noticing that some women don’t even feel their being disrespected anymore. To be refereed to by these terms has become the norm. They hear it but feel nothing by it. Some are even proud that their someone’s number one bitch.
If I was a mother to a young girl I would be livid that my daughter would allow anyone…including close friends…to talk to her like that. But I’m a mother to a baby boy on his way to being a man one day. How can I teach my son to respect females, girls, women when they don’t respect themselves?
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