The Duchess of Sussex has said she has “zero interest” in reclaiming the “B-word” as she avoided saying it out loud in full in a podcast devoted to exploring the term. Meghan, in her latest Archetypes episode called To ‘B’ or not to ‘B’?, discussed the origin of the word “bitch” and its “cousin ‘difficult'” and how the terms are often used to derogatively brand strong-minded women.
The former actress confessed she “hates the word so much” and listening to it gives her “hives”, and she opted not to say it, using instead the “B-word”, and spelling out B-I-T-C-H just once, during the hour-long recording. “What these people are implying when they use that very charged word is that this woman ‘Oh she’s difficult’, which is really just a euphemism, or is probably not even a euphemism, it’s really a code word for the B-word,” Meghan said.
Writer and comedian Robin Thede, who has embraced the term, told Meghan: “I love that women have used this phrase bad bitch as a positive thing…. It’s like, you know, you look amazing”. But Meghan added after hearing sketches using the word liberally: “I mean for a person who hates the word so much. This is giving me hives.
