I figured I'd write something about my thoughts on using curse words. It sounds silly I know, but until I thought about what I was saying, I realized I was using words I shouldn't. What are the curse words we use today? Ass, damn, fuck, shit, etc. What are these words up close though? They are just shortened words from common ones, but given a meaning of vulgarity. I'd like to call these words basic cursing because you can use them with anything. These words are not racial slurs. Personally I don't believe that these are curse words or words that should be forbidden to say. Why do I believe this? I believe that these words are just other shorter ways of saying other words and people over the years have just declared them curses. This may have occurred through many ways(Look up the history of the words if you want and don't use religious books). I see no difference in saying "Your a piece of shit" apposed to "Your a piece of poop." Its the same sentence with a different word. Why is saying "Fuck you" an offense to people? I believe its because we have an understanding that those words are meant to be offensive and want to take them that way. I do have a problem with racial/sexual/handicapped slurs and I believe that is where the real hate is at. Calling people chinks, crackers, niggers, towel heads, etc is down right fucking stupid to me. There is no reason at all why you should say any of those things to a person of a different race. By saying those words you are the regression and you are dividing humanity. Then there is calling people/things "gay" or "retarded." People are brought in this world without a choice in what color they will be, what sexual preference they will have, or if they are born with a mental/physical handicap. I know too many people that wont say "curse words." Instead that put in place words in society that are not in the category of "cursing." If something doesn't go right or someone doesn't do something right they are not "gay" or "retarded." More than likely we think by replacing "Your a dumb ass" with "Your retarded" we are not saying something bad because it does not involve a "curse word." You can grow up and choose to be a dumb ass by not making good decisions and putting yourself in a rut. You can't however grow out of a mental handicap. I am a person that used those words in place of the societal "curse words" we have today .Every time I said racial/sexist/handicapped slurs I felt the need to look around to see if there was a person that might take offense to what I had said. I have not fully cured myself of saying these things, but I am making an effort to.
Just something to think about.
-Tyler Legacy
2 comments:
what your saying about the curse words being taken offensively is true not only in this instance. women in america as well as some other countries recieve sexual pleasure from having their boobs carressed, however in countries like africa where a womans body is not seen as only a sex object this is not the case. society over the years has tought our women that this is pleasurable.
not really sure what this has to do with any thing just thought i would add it lol
I didn't know that, but I can see a little tie in there haha.
Who is this by the way?
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