A few years back, if you would hear someone throwing out the B-word, you would be sure that person was trying to insult somebody. But today
“Bitch”
comes in so many different shapes and colours that it is hard to tell if it is an insult anymore. There is the
“Bad Bitch”,
“Boss Bitch”
and
“Dope Bitch”. And now, also joining the club, we have
“Basic Bitch”.
In short; “Basic Bitch” refers to women who are plain and normal, but who thinks she is something extra, when she actually just is, well, basic.
If you would head to Starbucks during the month of October you will find it packed with “Basic Bitches”, standing in line to get their pumpkin spice lattes so they can post a picture on Instagram of it before they head out into the cold wearing leggings and Uggs.
The “Basic Bitch” is the girl who drinks cosmos because that’s what Carrie in Sex and the City did, who’s favourite movie is the Notebook, that thinks that “frappe” is real coffee, that goes to the gym but spends more time taking selfies than she do working out, that listens to Taylor Swift and can actually relate to the lyrics, that buys scented candles but never lights them, that only have one hand to do things with because her iPhone is clued to the other one, that don’t eat carbs but still do brunch with her girlfriends every weekend, that will dress as “slutty-anything” on Halloween , that reads her horoscope daily and actually believes it is true, that has a tattoo of her zodiac on her ankle and that attaches an inspirational quote to everything whether it be an email, Instagram or Facebook.
So is it bad to be
“basic”? Well,
“basic”
originates from the hip-hop world but have now taken its form as a white-girl-on-white-girl insult (not saying that women of other colours can’t use it as well). It is the perfect word for putting another girl down without having to take it to a nastier kind of level. Calling another girl
“basic”
is literally saying that she is no one, she is beneath you, and she will always be there.
So in that sense I guess being” basic” is not such a great thing. And as far as the “Basic Bitch”goes; she is not too popular among the other kind of bitches.
Is there a cure to being a “
Basic Bitch”
, can you actually leave all that behind and become a Bad-, Boss- or Dope Bitch? I think you can. Just as with any kind of issue you first have to acknowledge that you have a problem, that you actually are a “
Basic Bitch”
. After that is done, you can move on to joining the other bitches’
clubs.
But if you honestly are happy with sipping a mocha-honey-strawberry-whatever-Frappuccino, wearing Uggs and posting a selfie on Instagram with the quote; “If you can dream it, you can do it.” Then by all means, carry on.
