Benny doesn't like you "bitches"

Giraffealaff · February 2014

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/02/19/benedict-cumberbatch-star-wars_n_4816122.html?utm_hp_ref=uk&just_reloaded=1

Benedict Cumberbatch has admitted he finds the whole 'Cumberbitches' tag for his huge fanbase "subservient and demeaning".

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Benedict Cumberbatch says "I didn't ask for it" of his fan club's attentions

"They’re actually changing themselves to the Cumbercollectives," he says. "Most of them have.

"They’ve gone down the route of reversing the negative backlash of however many years of feminism and it was a little bit worrying.

"I didn’t ask for this sort of subservient, demeaning collective and they go, 'Oh no, it’s only a joke.'"

On the subject of the new Star Wars film, he was less forthcoming.

"It's all rumour, it's all gossip," the 'Sherlock' star dismisses reports that he was to be cast in the first of the revamped franchise, to be directed by J J Abrams, whom he worked with on 'Star Trek'.

"Nobody’s been offered anything. Well, I would like to do, and I’ve said so many times before. I’d like to do it. J.J. is working on it and he knows where I live."

Monkeybabe · February 2014

This is actually old news. I feel like that whole article is just a regurgitation of stuff he's said before, not an actual new interview.

LaurelBee · February 2014

Anyone who gets their panties in a bunch about being called a bitch jokingly, takes themselves too seriously.

Giraffealaff · February 2014

Words only have the amount of power that you choose to give them.

My mother hates the word cunt. I love the word. I told her to try mentally supplementing the word cunt with cupcake instead. Suddenly when someone calls you a cunt it seems less intense, no?

So if women are empowered enough to take a "demeaning" word like bitch and turn it around, then why not?