What a Bitch

After reading the article from "Bitch Magazine" I was left thinking more about the label "bitch" then anything else. So naturally the first thing I did was Google the word. Not surprisingly the first thing that came up was "Bitch Magazine" but also there was the Wikipedia entry for bitch. Although Wikipedia is not even close to a reliable source it still shows what people define the word as. Also going to dictionary.com and looking up the word closely matched Wikipedia's entry.
Both entries began with the actual definition of the word: a female dog. But both also had the definition as a "malicious, spiteful, domineering, intrusive, or unpleasant person, especially a woman." It seems to me that domineering does not necessarily have to be malicious and if a man is domineering is it spiteful? Along these lines, Wikipedia went on to say that if a man is called a bitch it's in a making them subordinate. So calling a woman a bitch makes her domineering and unpleasant but calling a man a bitch makes him subordinate and weak? These two definitions seem awfully contradicting.
Bitch can be heard and seen everywhere. Songs and tv shows often don't even beep it out anymore; it is slowly becoming more and more okay and accepted to use. I still cringe when I say it and writing in this blog over and over was a real...tough and unpleasant thing. The word bitch is so integrated into our language is it possible to remove it or at least take it back to it's original and true meaning?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitch

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bitch