{"id":91397,"date":"2025-07-28T05:18:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T09:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/word-choice-polite-alternative-to-the-term-bitch-when-referring-to\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T05:18:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T09:18:00","slug":"word-choice-polite-alternative-to-the-term-bitch-when-referring-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/word-choice-polite-alternative-to-the-term-bitch-when-referring-to\/","title":{"rendered":"word choice &#8211; Polite alternative to the term &#8220;bitch&#8221; when referring to &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>@JohnQPublic is correct; it&#8217;s bitch and dog for female and male domestic canines, respectively. In the context of dogs, the term &#8220;bitch&#8221; is not considered rude or derogatory. However, if you are writing for a wider audience and specifically want to avoid &#8220;bitch&#8221;, at least be consistent and just use &#8220;male&#8221; and &#8220;female&#8221; respectively as appropriate (examples are in the answer).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.stackexchange.com\/questions\/129301\/polite-alternative-to-the-term-bitch-when-referring-to-a-female-dog\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/english.stackexchange.com\/questions\/129301\/polite-alternative-to-the-term-bitch-when-referring-to-a-female-dog<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@JohnQPublic is correct; it&#8217;s bitch and dog for female and male domestic canines, respectively. In the context of dogs, the term &#8220;bitch&#8221; is not considered&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sapiosexual","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}