‘Biddy’ City?

 

I’ll admit it – I’ve been called a biddy before. I’ve even called a girl a biddy before. Friends have said they are going to have a ‘biddy night’ or were ‘biddy-ing’ out that night. Why exactly has this term become so popular on JMU’s campus?

Sorority women often throw around the term, as well as so many other members of the JMU community. It seems like it is synonymous with ‘girl’ or ‘woman’ but the associations we have with the word ‘biddy’ aren’t always the most positive.  When people think of or identify biddies, they’re sometimes the girls walking up and down Port Republic on Friday night in tight skirts and high heels, or wearing Ugg boots and yoga pants to class.

While there’s nothing wrong with these outfits, how has JMU come to stereotype this as a bad thing? Is it because of our lopsided female to male ratio perhaps? Or a joke that caught on? However the term ‘biddy’ managed to catch on like wildfire, it has almost turned into an insult.