Talk:Transformers Comic issue 14
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Sentry duty, I can handle. Listening to you bitch all day in...
Do you think it's noteworthy that Elita One (Movie) swears (Listening to you bitch about all day in) at Armorhide (Movie) 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.')
