Meghan Markle discusses her Spotify podcast series 'Archetypes'

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Meghan Markle pushed back against the word b**** in the lastest episode of her Archetypes podcast where she explores the hidden meaning of the term. In “deep” and “meaningful” conservations with five “strong-minded” women, the Duchess of Sussex discussed how the B-word has been leveraged against women. During the conversation titled “To B or not to B”, Meghan Markle claimed it has been used to ultimately hide a woman’s “awesome qualities”.

She said: “Perhaps, the truth is labelling woman as the B word or as difficult is often a deflection.

“A way to hide some of her really awesome qualities, her persistence, her perseverance, her strong opinion, maybe even her resilience.”

“It’s just one of those labels,” she explained. “That feels like it’s thrown around constantly and while its usage, certainly has undertones that say a lot about the person who’s speaking There’s still a specific type of woman who tends to be the recipient.”

As she introduced comedian Robin Thede, Ms Thede said the word b**** can be “used to describe a woman who goes after what she wants”.

But Meghan took issue with Ms Thede’s point of view as she further explained why she does not necessarily view the world in the same way.

“What these people are implying when they use that very charged word, is that this woman, ‘Oh she’s difficult,'” Meghan said. “Which is really just a euphemism, or is probably not even a euphemism. It’s really a code word for the b-word.”

Though she commended comedian Robin Thede and other women for choosing to “reclaim” and “embrace” the b-word, Meghan confessed she has a different take on the issue. 

“Because as you may have guessed, I have zero interest in reclaiming this term,” she said. “But these women I respect whose work, I love a lot of them are entirely comfortable with that. They want to do that, to take the power out of it.”

She later doubled down on her stance about the B-word being used to “insult and dismiss” women. Though one of her close friends associated “assertive woman” with the term, she did not change her mind on the significance of the slur.

“When I saw her, she said something I had never heard before, ‘Well, isn’t that a convenient villain’, an assertive woman in a position of power, being called the B-word? How very convenient,” Meghan continued.

“But that’s what happens when we label someone, a woman especially, one of these words. It becomes a way to take their power away.”

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The Duchess of Sussex fell short of addressing how she herself was labelled “difficult”, “demanding” and worse when she lived in the UK, before and after she married Prince Harry. 

In his book “Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War Between the Windsors”, biographer Tom Bower reported that Prince Harry’s old private school friends used the B-word after she refused to laugh at their crude jokes when they first met during a weekend shooting party at the Queen’s Sandringham estate.

Meghan Markle’s behaviour also came under closer scrutiny during her time as a working royal when she was the subject of an internal Buckingham Palace investigation over allegations that she bullied palace staff. Meghan’s representatives have pushed back against the bullying allegations, saying there were part of a “calculated smear campaign”.

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