All swear words are, probably. They are getting to be too commonplace to be all that shocking any more.
This was a girl with HER MOTHER at Bumbershoot last weekend. Wearing a shirt with the F word on it like it was no big deal.
I also saw some other girl wearing a pair of pants with the F word stenciled along the butt in rhinestones. Did you hear me? Rhinestones. All Juicy Couture style.
And last week I was at the Theatre. Guess what? The F word shows up on all the new tee shirts and other merch for the musical Spring Awakening. Not to mention being set to music.
Anyway. Once a word is okay around mothers, shows up on track pants in rhinestones, and gets sung in Broadway musicals, it just seems like we are missing the point of having a good swear word or two.
Do you think someone is going to invent something to top the F word? It seems likely that something is going to have to come along to take its place, but I can't even imagine what it might be. Nothing seems to raise many eyebrows anymore.
(Maybe we shouldn't write our suggestions in the comment section, though.)
As with so many other facets of modern life the Russians have us beat. I have it on good authority that there are 24 different ways of saying the *F* word in Russian-- many of which are way worser than ours.
ReplyDeleteIt is probably because they couldn't keep saying "dude. your mullet is so f-ing awesome" all the time. They needed a few other ways to express appreciation for the finest hairstyle ever.
ReplyDeleteit was a fun moment in the er the other day when a mom with her two young girls fumbled to find her phone who's ringtone was blaring away to the tune of kate perry's hit single...very nice.
ReplyDeletei use to get my cuss words from the names of cities in foreign countries. like yelling kuala lumpur when i was mad or calling someone a hangzou.
ReplyDeleteit didn't catch on
Holy Eff. This mother-scratchin' blog post has me in fetchin' stiches Becca!
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