bitch. (male) 1. A derogatory term for a man, implying his lack of masculinity.

2. The weaker partner in a prison-sex arrangement. 3. A male dominated or humiliated by another man and referred to as such by that man, usually expressed as “my bitch” or “you my bitch.”

There would appear to be more than a touch of racism present in this usage. When the HBO series Oz started, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote about the significance of “bitch” in Slate: “In the Jim Crow era, white men oppressed black men partially out of fear that they blacks would ravish virginal white women. Today, white men fear ravishment themselves.” Such a reading is seemingly confirmed not only by the underlying racial dynamic on the television series, but by other cultural phenomena as well. A flash animation found at FunFreePages.com called “Make You My Bitch” (which the webmasters call “disturbing”) enacts the sexual, racial, and power elements of prison rape without a blink.

Figure 2 shows Vernon Schillinger (J.K. Simmons) after he has raped the new inmate Tobias Beecher on the HBO series Oz. In Oz, the Aryans do as much raping as any one else, it seems. This work is copyrighted and unlicensed. I believe that the use of this work in the article “bitch (male)” to illustrate the subject in question qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law.