These words I’m using are confrontational. Some of them are downright ugly. All of them have been used as insults, specific and gendered attacks designed to put down, dehumanize, and minimize women, to diminish our sense of self. I have been called some of these words myself, and I understand the weight they carry and how they are wielded against us, day in, day out. I chose these words deliberately to illustrate character archetypes that have tried to do the same.
