Ugh, shut up. Seriously.

One of my guilty pleasures is watching Celebrity Fit Club on VH1. For those of you who don't know what it is, it's a bunch of fat, semi-famous people competing to see who can lose the most weight. Why do I watch it? I honestly don't know, but I can't help it.

At any rate, one of the contestants on the show is Judge Mayblean, the judge from Divorce Court (remember, I said semi-famous). Not many people on the show like her. She's bossy, she's annoying, and constantly argues with the health professionals on the show. All in all, she's a stubborn bitch.

That's all well and good, except that on the most recent show she said something that left me speechless. She was confiding in another cast member that she thought people didn't like her - not because she was bossy, annoying or stubborn - but because people don't like seeing strong black women. Ah! Shut up!

Being a strong black woman has nothing to do with being bossy, annoying, stubborn and bitchy. People that get the two confused really irritate me. Being a bitch doesn't make you a strong woman, and being a strong woman doesn't make you a bitch.

No one likes men that act like that, either. And it doesn't have anything to do with race. Not in this century. 60 years ago, yeah maybe some people would've been upset by a 'strong, black woman'. But when there are several black congress women, actresses, etc. that argument doesn't really stand up. Not to mention the fact that the most successful talk show in America is hosted by a black woman billionaire, and a black woman is the head diplomat in the most powerful nation in the world.

So if people don't like you, it's not because they're racist or threatened by your strength. It's because your personality sucks.