Swear words, cuss words, profanity... You know what I'm talking about here.
I've been wondering these past few days why certain words are considered "bad". Who's to say that 500 years ago it was wrong to use words like f*** or s***?? What makes them wrong to say other than what we've been taught? Or slang words?? It's a clusterf***.
Why is it that when it comes to racial terms, any other ethnicity can call white people "crackers" or anything like that without problem, but when white people call others of another ethnicity any sort of slang it's called "racism"? Why can't I use the word "nigga" without being called a racist?
All these words are just that: Words. Any word can be a bad word depending on the context of which it is used, but if it's not being used in a degrading way why is it so horrible to say?
Let's start with the worst of 'em all: F***.
It can be used as a verb and an adjective. For example "I F***ing love that!" In the ''verb" sense, I'm sure you already know how it's used. How is the word considered swearing when it's used as an expression of feeling? Sure, I can see how "I'll kick your F***ing ass" would constitute as offensive, but even so, it's just a word used to describe somebody's ass.
How about the word S***. I don't even know why we can't say that, and yet we can say poop. It's the same thing! If somebody says "I'm having a S***ty day", is that so wrong? In this sense, again, it's just self expression, explaining the kind of day they're having.
Other words?
Ass. This is the one that gets me the most. WHY CAN'T I SAY ASS??? I don't even want to get into why this one's so "bad".
Bitch: a female dog. But I realize its most common use is towards women in a degrading way. So ya got me there (but this also goes back to the slang dilemma I mentioned previously).
Now, words like "C***", "H**", "Wh***", "Sl**", etc, are all degrading words, yes, but where in the world do these words come from??
To me, words are words. I admit that every "swear word" under the sky tends to slip out of my mouth, probably more than they should, but it's my mouth they're coming out of and I don't see why people should look down on me for it, especially when I NEVER use these words unless I'm in privacy.
I'd like to meet whoever it was that said "This word is bad, and so is this one, and this one, oh and this one, too" just to ask who died and made him/her King/Queen of the dictionary.
Share your thoughts.
My opinion about cuss words is that they are "sacred" in a sense, such as, you don't cuss unless it's to really boldly exemplify something. Saying fuck all the time vs. only saying fuck when something really bad happens shows the values related to that word. I personally don't cuss a lot, but when I do, people who know me are startled. And I like that, because I can use cuss words as a way to show something I'm talking about is different. It's good in my opinion that we have a set of words that are cuss words, because they provide a tool in conversation. If you cuss, you can make certain people pay attention. But when we use cuss words indiscriminately, we're making them just like all words. Some people may disagree, but i feel the more diverse a language is, the more capable it is of allowing people to speak all the thoughts of their mind.
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