Carly Fiorina portrayed herself as a grind-it-out fighter in her opening statement at Tuesday night’s Republican debate in Las “I fought my way to the top of corporate America while being called every B-word in the book,” she said. “I fought my way into this election.” Presumably the most prominent of those words was bitch, a slur commonly used against assertive women. But what were the others? The Slate staff consulted its extensive sources at Hewlett-Packard corporate headquarters and put together a comprehensive list:
- Bimbo
- Boss (but in kind of a sarcastic way, like, “OK, there, boss”)
- Buddy (also sarcastic)
- Buster (the ’90s rap slang definition)
- Bodhisattva, the Sanskrit term for anyone who, motivated by great compassion, has generated bodhicitta
- Bing-bong (e.g. “Get a load of this bing-bong! [while pointing surreptitiously at Fiorina]”)
- Beavis and/or Butthead
- Bing-bong (by people who just walked into the room and didn’t hear her called “bing-bong” the first time)
That’s the definitive list of B-words that Carly Fiorina was called by haters at Hewlett-Packard.
