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Bitch is a word that describes a subset of the female gender, characterized by anger and bitter resentment. Does that mean that using a term like bitch, applied to the larger set (women) should not be offensive?
You're using the same flawed logic for redneck if you say that because it applies to a SPECIFIC subset that it's not offensive when applied to the larger set. Some women wear "bitch" like a badge of honor, yet it doesn't define all or even most women. Call a random girl on a street a "bitch" and don't expect it to be taken rudely? Naive. (Thank you whomever corrected my spelling of this word earlier)
I'm offended when someone calls me a redneck, because it denigrates my race (yes, race), my intelligence, my political ideology, and my attitude towards life. Bitch, nigger, and cracker all fall into these same categories. I don't see how you can justify it as NOT being a racial slur because it applies to a subset of a larger set; you've seen above that it is flawed logic. By this logic, calling a white man a nigger would mean that nigger isn't racial because it applies only to your status is a hierarchy and not a race.
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