[Acrylic-bob]

>>derogatory or not they are not illigitimate and they are not bastards and i couldnt give a sh1t what a book says <<

Happily for society as a whole and civilisation in general, you are in a fairly small minority there.

The fact remains that, like it or not, any child born to an unmarried mother is illegitimate in the eyes of the law and thus a bastard. There are some who have revelled in the apellation; William the Conqueror was commonly referred to as William the Bastard and later in the fifteenth century one of the illegitimate sons of the French king (I forget which one) rejoiced in the ludicrous title of The Grand Bastard of Burgundy.

Indeed, I have even been known to refer to myself as "Bastard, by name and by nature!"