Cussing & Consequences: What the F@#K!
When it comes to cussing, cursing or swearing, who set the rules? Is there some f^@king international governing body? And do certain words warrant more wicked consequences or is the system just not that sophisticated . . . yet? Answer: who the h-e-double hockey sticks knows.
Can we petition for inclusion of words? I would love to just make some s**t up, some dumb a@@ word that nobody has ever heard of and market the . . . jimney crickets out of it to get it promoted to the top of the cussing list ~ just to say I had done it. Just to say I had f%$ked with people to the extent that I had created a spankin’ new cuss word all my own.
Can we petition to get a word removed from the list? A few months ago, I had the pleasure of working on V-Day’s “The Vagina Monologues” (vday.org) in my community, which thankfully was very well received, made a ton of money for a local domestic violence group and for women of the Congo.
Yet, the first venue we approached turned us down flat. Not because of the V-Day’s noble mission statement, to end violence against women and girls, but because of one word: vagina. A mother protested the use of the space because she didn’t know how to address the anticipated poster that would be inevitably be hung at the venue: “What do I tell my daughter when she sees the word . . . vagina?”
Note to self: Find covert cussing police, petition for the removal of “vagina,” lobby for adoption of new cuss word.
Note to reader: None of the above applies to religious references while cussing. That, my friends, is a horse of a different color.
