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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Neocon who wrote (72857)1/22/2000 1:43:00 PM
From: jbe  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Actually, I just went googling, to use CharleyMike's nice little neologism, and discovered that it was William James who first used "bitch goddess" in the sense of "goddess of success." His message was that intellectuals betray themselves when they worship said goddess. But I was wrong to assume that James's use of the term is the only "correct" one. Sorry.

Historically, the term "bitch goddess" apparently applies to any earth-mother type goddess, especially to the amoral mixture of good & evil types like Kali. By origin, Nemesis may indeed have been such a bitch goddess, but the earth mother element seems to have disappeared over time.
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