The Wicked Witch, Elphaba (played by the excellent Idina Menzel), turns out to be good, while Glinda the Good Witch (Kristen Chenoweth) is exposed as a smug, ambitious, manipulative bitch, with little talent for sorcery.
Of course, if a woman never settles for less than the best and is ambitious, she is labeled a "bitch".
"Complaints lodged, swearing, shouting, rudeness" Well, says Crayola D'Ville - if you're a strong, ambitious woman, people are going to call you a bitch!
In its Saturday afternoon editions, the newspaper Le Monde reported breathlessly that the "impossible has happened" and that "the screen bitch with the too-big eyes, the ambitious devourer of Hollywood, the she-wolf" was dead.
It's our prevailing cultural paradigm: ambitious men are go-getters, but ambitious women are bitches.
I could be super ambitious and say I'm going to ditch (or at least limit) my bitch voice altogether... but nah.
Cohn is an unrepentant son of a bitch, an almost likable sociopath who takes a "fatherly" interest in the ambitious Joe, encouraging him to become a "Royboy" in Washington, regardless of his wife's wish to remain in Brooklyn.
Which begs the question: Can a woman be ambitious -- in charge, driven, goal-oriented, confident, passionate -- without being labeled a bitch?
Italy's turn to host the annual talkathon got off to an inauspicious start, with criticism of Silvio Berlusconi for slashing his aid budget and bitching behind the scenes about Rome's failure to set an ambitious agenda.
