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You’re all a bunch of…

Posted: August 20th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: abbi, thoughts | 2 Comments »

I got told off today for my language. Apparently, it’s bad.

OK, so yes, I do swear a lot. I’m not about to stop. I regularly call my best friends cunts. I say fuck this, I tell people they’re a cock. I only really censor myself when I’m working and that’s only because, well, it’s expected and I can respect that.

But, here’s my issue. I am told off for calling someone a cunt. It’s not in a malicious way, and in any event, even if it were they would have done something to deserve my ire.

What really annoys me though, is that the vast majority of people who criticise swearing wouldn’t even think twice about saying things that, when you consider them in detail, could be equally (if not more) offensive. I mean, people who would jump on you for calling someone “a fucking cunt” but wouldn’t think twice about saying “I’ll kill you”. Think about it. You’re saying it’s wrong to allude to sex and female genitalia, two things that are wonderful and amazing, but it’s more than fine to say that you want to murder someone?

A lot of what is deemed acceptable to say and what isn’t deemed acceptable seems to stem more from what we are told we should believe is wrong rather than what is actually logically wrong. Threaten physical violence – yes, absolutely fine! Talk about a penis… oooh, can’t do that I’m afraid.

I’m not in any way saying that we should all start to go around telling everyone to fuck themselves, oh no. But please, stop telling me off for doing it.

2 Comments on “You’re all a bunch of…”

  1. 1 Michael Stevens said at 12:05 pm on August 20th, 2010:

    Randomness:

    I get annoyed with people who seem to think swearing unfairly picks on female genitalia. Those people are just dicks and assholes, and their claims are a load of balls.

    My theory on the violence/sex front is that the people who say talking about violence is okay, but sex is bad, are working on the principle that they’re tempted by sex, think it’s evil, but might fall be lead astray by talking about it too much.

    Whereas with violence, they feel less temptation, so they think it’s less risky to talk about it.

  2. 2 Katey said at 10:08 pm on August 31st, 2010:

    CUNTS.

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