http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/31/olivia-pope-bitch-scandal_n_6082686.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000046
After former gladiator, now Press Secretary, Abby confronts the president about what he's doing to Olivia's most recent lover, Jake -- and calls him out on being a "married man who used to sleep with my friend" -- Fitz shows up at Olivia's door, ready for an argument.
"So, Abby's kind of a bitch," he says, as soon as he walks into her apartment.
"Don't say that!," Olivia immediately hits back. "The words used to describe women! If she was a man you'd say she was 'formidable' or 'bold' or 'right.'"
Calling a formidable woman a "bitch" is an easy way to cut down her actions or words, and is often used to invalidate any power behind those actions and words.
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