Same old crap with new intro

Andre 3000 on Kelis's "Millionaire":

Where there is cheese there are rats
Wherever there are rats there are cats
Wherever there are cats there are dogs

At which point, you may be scratching your head as to what he's on about here. Never fear:

If you got the dogs, you got bitches
Bitches always out to put their paws on your riches

Something similar (drowning "bitch" is a funny/off-the-wall context) also occurs on The Love Below on "Roses," with that crazily extended rhyme between "bitch" and "ditch" and later on at the end, with the repetitions of "crazy bitch" which Big Boi's "dumb-ass bitch" interjections add some rhythm to (and I find them funny, as well).

This is all very funny/clever and cloaked in the appropriate "it's not about all women, just this one" apparel (although, by the end of "Roses" it's pretty gratuitous) and it's an old debate, but I'm still troubled by hearing a woman casually called a "bitch." Perhaps even moreso than in some dumb gangsta context, because it suggests that such insults have attained a greater degree of refinement while retaining their primal offensive capabilities. I don't know, maybe I'm just old-fashioned and don't get out enough.