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Quote by: Halofan48  It's not the words, though. It's the context the words is used in. Like, if I said "That's a bitch" I could mean that there is a female dog. Or I could mean that something sucks. It all depends on context. If you ban a word, people will just think up new words that they can use. |
Yeah, it's not the words but the person behind the words that make them sound bad.
When I was young Etta James had this song out called "Roll with me Henry". People protested so the changed it to "Dance with me Henry" and later gave it a title "The Wallflower" (a wallflower is someone who never dances but just sits on the sidelines).
Censorship was dominate through out the USA up until the sexual revolution of the 1960s. When I was in gradeschool I was not allowed to go into a bowling alley because that was a place for adult men only, a place were they could cuss if the wanted without women or kids being present. Like going to a private nudist camp, they had places where you can cuss and where it was taboo. Never in the presense of a lady, or in front of the children. No one was cussing and claiming a Consitutional right to do so, in a public place.
Only on a rare occation if pop accidently hit his finger while hammering in a nail would hear a cuss word.
I do not know what point it is I am making with that little historical review.
Other then that the way people communicate changed a lot between 1957 and 2007.
Cussing is the result of our last big revolution when people wanted " a change " from what was then the establishment, which had censored a lot of things from pot to potty mouth. Now we are in another cycle where they want to ban nudity, pot, cigarettes, bad words, and even the theory of evolution if they can. And more then just that I guess.
Make up your mind America. Freedom and liberty, or censorship and morally motivated dictatorships. I doubt if you can have it both ways.