Biddy Swank is a place for women who get called “intense” and don’t plan to change
We are biddies, with swank.
We are tired of young men telling us they are scared of us because we are too “intense.” (That’s code for competent, intelligent, and possessing skills and power.)
Or maybe not tired, just bored. We certainly don’t care if they are scared. We spent our lives being harassed, attacked, and paid less than men like that. They should be scared.
There was a time we might have sought to change that perception. Then we grew up.
Welcome to the club.
By the time we are old — or at least not young, we are everything we ever were. But now we have swank.
Biddy Swank
A Definition of biddy, from the Urban Dictionary:
“Biddy” is actually a very interesting word because it has two separate origins, both fairly well-documented, which is unusual for a slang term.
The primary meaning of “biddy” is “chicken,” and it first appeared in the early 17th century. The word probably came from the nonsense syllables used to call chickens — something like “here biddybiddybiddy,” I suppose.
By the late 18th century “biddy” had been adopted as a derogatory slang term for women, much in the same unfortunate way that “chick” was in the 1960’s.
However, “biddy” in this sense might have died a welcome death had it not been for the influx of Irish immigrants into the U.S. in the early 19th century.
Young Irish women often had their passage paid by upper-class American families, for whom they would then work as domestic servants while they paid off their debt. The practice was so widespread that such women came to be known as “Biddies,” from a shortening of “Bridget,” a common Irish women’s name.
This use of “biddie” reinvigorated the word, and ever since it has been employed by insolent children to torment their elders.
“The old biddy is playing bridge“
by skull_dugger December 1, 2007
or
“I’m trying to pick up a biddy”
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