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Originally Posted by Turtle91
I actually quite agree on the concept/rant of the silliness....but I somehow still don't say "Shut the h*ll up you f**ing little b*gger!" to my little grand daughters...and I would be very cross if someone else did it anyway.
If I think it's important to protect the innocence of a 2 year old, then I would like to think it's important to protect my innocence (  to the max extent possible  ) as well...
There is definitely something (good) to be said about "polite company", regardless of the silliness.  |
Yes, but that's my point. You're saying, in your post, that saying ""Shut the h*ll up you f**ing little b*gger!" is somehow
wrong. Because a bunch of women (let's not kid ourselves) decided that that's unacceptable behavior. It's the same as Prohibition; the Carrie Nations of the world
decided for everybody else what was right, what was wrong and what we should do.
I wouldn't discuss murders, rapes, etc., with children, either. Or Sexual congress between adults. There's a difference between innocence, suitable topics and whether or not saying "poop" versus "No. 2" or "s**t" makes the latter profanity and unhearable in polite company, versus the former two.
If your comment means, for example, that while you wouldn't say it TO small children, you'd yell at another adult "screw you!" in their hearing, but wouldn't say Eff you...I mean, that's madness. I'm not criticizing you, seriously. I'm saying that this sort of distinction is the ubiquitous Cognitive Dissonance that we see everywhere these days.
I mean--who decided that s**t is unacceptable in "polite" company, but "poop" is perfectly fine? Am I the only one that finds that bizarre or utterly irrational?
Hitch