Hail Bitches!

In Eastern Bihar a lizard is known as a Bitchkutiya. What's the probability that a creature gets called Bitch twice over in two different languages, when it's not canine and sometimes not even female?

But the bitchkutiya shouldn’t take any offence to this tautology of a name, because Bitch is the most colloquially bendy, gender and species agnostic name. It’s a noun but stands in mostly for an adjective.

It’s also a little confusing because one might throw it as an insult but the other party might decide to take it on as a compliment. Women are well aware of it. In the hierarchy of abuses, as I have repeatedly maintained, Bitch is right at the top.

When a man calls you a Bitch, very often it shows a state of frustration or powerlessness, where he knows that there’s not much he can do, and he is dropping the cudgels. Language/Semiotics is all about signifier and signified. But then Bitch is the word that subverts this system totally. For a lot of us Bitch translates into a Sledgehammer. You must have been totalled to call us that. Because one knows otherwise you would have called us a Slut.

Bitch implies testosterone and power. You don't get called a Bitch and own it easily. You need to climb a ladder, clear the Obstacle race, reach right at the top to finally claim the status of the Bitch.

So I would really like to know how the lizard got there. And not once but twice over with the word BitchKutiya. All hail Bitchkutiya.