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Each case really needs to be considered on its own merits. It is the intent behind the words which are harmful, not the words themselves.
My friends and I quite normally address each other as "cunt", "tosser", "wanker", "assmunch", "asshat", "prick", "bastard", etc., but never with any harmful intent. In fact on the rare occasions when any of us do get genuinly pissed off with each other, we are usually quite respectful in our mode off address.
So if someone uses "bitch" on the titty board, surely you've got to either assume that there is no real cognitive process behind it, so no malice was intended, or that the guy's an asshat who doesn't know what he's talking about, so who cares what he thinks anyway? Unless he knows the girl and she really is a bitch.
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"No one was behaving from very Buddhist motives. Then, thought Pigsy, he was hardly a Buddha, nor was he a monkey. Presently, he was a pig spirit changed into a little girl pretending to be a little boy to be offered to a water monster. It was all very simple to a pig spirit."
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