This post’s name is “Fuck”. Why, then, is it that? Because it’s my right to be able to say that. My country gives me the right to say that. Saying “Fuck” doesn’t hurt anyone. It hurts absolutely no one. If you have a strong aversion to the word “Fuck”, you can still leave this page or unsubscribe from my feed.
This is all well and good, right? Apparently not. There are assholes who believe that you can do anything as long as you don’t cuss. That not cussing is automatically treating your fellow people with dignity and respect - “making the world a better place”. What a crock of shit.
The people who flew airplanes into the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon were deeply religious (if wrongheadedly so - that’s another issue). They probably didn’t cuss. How many times did the poor passengers on those flights cuss? Probably more than you can imagine. I’d be going “fuck” too if I was about to crash into the Pentagon. You can say a lot about the hijackers, but were they treating their fellow people with dignity and respect? Not a fucking chance.
People who tell other people to not say “fuck” are assholes. There’s a theory that changing the language redefines the way we can express ourselves, and it has yet to be disproven. Barring words because you don’t like them is totalitarian, uppity bullshit. Telling people to not say “fuck” is the ultimate in not treating your fellow people with dignity and respect, and a good start on the road to censorship.
Do me a favor and don’t watch your mouth this week. As long as the people around you have the option to simply not listen to you, you have absolutely no reason to.
Fuck me, fuck me, fuck me, fuck me
I am Ernie’s rubber ducky
Kiss me, kiss me, kiss me, kiss me
Let’s break out the tits and whiskey
- Mary Prankster
It chafes my ass when people who don’t swear act morally and intellectually superior to those that do. If you don’t want to use those words, that’s fine, but don’t act like the rest of us are knuckle-dragging throwbacks with nothing more intelligent to say than “Og beer! Og get woman!” So what if I use harmless words that, somewhere along the line, were arbitrarily designated as Bad? I use them because they express frustration in a succinct and abrupt way. (And they make hilarious compound insults. Fuckbucket! Shitstain! Oops, there I go not treating people with dignity again…but if it’s time for name-calling, we’ve gone way beyond dignity.) How in the hell does that negate the content in my words? My entire higher brain?
The aptly named Penn and Teller’s Bullshit! did an amusing episode on this subject a while ago. Even if you’re unfamiliar with the show, you should be able to guess their opinion on the matter from the title.
By Rydain · 2006.09.03 21:53
This was written within ten minutes of watching that episode, but it mirrors beliefs I’ve had for quite some time. The episode pushed me to finally write it up here.
By Jesper · 2006.09.03 22:01
Great fucking post. I really hate people who substitute swear words for a lame alternative, like “that ticks me off”, oh sure that’ll really save you from being sent to hell (not).
By Neil · 2006.09.04 06:00