Talk:Transformers Comic issue 14
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Sentry duty, I can handle. Listening to you bitch all day in...
[edit]Do you think it's noteworthy that Elita-One swears (Listening to you bitch about all day in) at Armorhide on page 12 in a children's comic? Gearshift 12:03, 1 August 2009 (EDT)
- It's harsh language, perhaps, but I wouldn't call it swearing. 'Bitch' (n. and v.) no longer carries a sexual sense much or at all, and the context makes it clear that the 'disagreeable behaviour' sense is what's meant. "Oh, you BITCH!" would surprise me in a children's comic, but the verb is much less forceful. --Tribimat 12:10, 1 August 2009 (EDT)
- There was a shift in... 1999? And suddenly TV Dramas were allowed to use 'bitch' in prime-time, as long as it was clang for 'to complain' rather than a pejorative. (It's around the same time 'crap' became acceptable.) Both words have been "filtering down" ever since, and have been largely nerf'd in the process. (Accusing someone of 'bitching' used to be a very harsh criticism, it's now a wry observation, or even a joke. "Bitchslap" has become a joke largely detached from it's origins of 'a pimp beating up his hos.')
- I don't think it'd qualify as trivia though unless the word never appeared in either live-action film.
- There was a shift in... 1999? And suddenly TV Dramas were allowed to use 'bitch' in prime-time, as long as it was clang for 'to complain' rather than a pejorative. (It's around the same time 'crap' became acceptable.) Both words have been "filtering down" ever since, and have been largely nerf'd in the process. (Accusing someone of 'bitching' used to be a very harsh criticism, it's now a wry observation, or even a joke. "Bitchslap" has become a joke largely detached from it's origins of 'a pimp beating up his hos.')
