Jim, I suspect the word is actually far older than you surmise. While enjoying my nightly pipe of opium, mixing my Forum reading with my nightly dose of Lewis Caroll, I encountered the following use of the word "bitchslap." "'I don't know what you mean by "bitchslap,'" Alice said. Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. 'Of course you don't- till I tell you. I meant "there's a nice knock-down argument for you!'" 'But 'bitchslap' doesn't mean "a nice knock-down argument,'" Alice objected. 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean- neither more nor less.' 'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.' 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master- that's all.' (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, Chapter 6.) Oh, my. Things get curiouser and curiouser. Now I'm a misogynist. I think I'll take a little sip of this bottle that says "Drink Me." Terrell