I’ve come to see “Bitches be crazy” as less a statement by men that women are crazy or even a reappropriated statement by women defending their own madness. Instead, I see the phrase and imagine a colon after “bitches, ” rendering it a command to other women, a battle cry. It is a way of saying, “We took back ‘bitch’ already. And now we have come for ‘crazy. Alana Massey
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Women have been very successful in reclaiming cursed words from the male dominated world. Women have been able to redefine terms such as bitch and crazy to make them sound appealing instead of offensive. They have been able to create a new meaning for the word crazy and used it as a way to empower others rather than a derogatory term. The word bitch is now a word that is used loosely and not with the same negative connotation as it once was.

Source: All The Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen To Be Famous Strangers

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