bitch

A four-panel comic. Panel 1: a young girl says to her mother, "Mom, you're a bitch," and the mother, shocked, replies, "What?! What did you say to me?!" Panel 2: the girl calmly explains, "It's all right, bitch. I'm reclaiming 'bitch' as a positive term," and the mother warns, "Stop saying it or you're grounded." Panel 3: the girl says, "Bitch, relax. This is how we disarm the patriarchy," and the angry mother points and shouts, "To your room! Now!" Panel 4: the girl now sits alone on the floor of her room, head in her hands, grumbling, "These goddamn bitches." The joke is that her reclaiming-language activism collapses into ordinary exasperated cursing. Votey: a caption reads "The joke part is the swearing!" above a close-up of a smiling cartoon face.