I don’t get it. These words restrict what can be on TV and radio. They change the ratings of games and movies. We go through all this effort to keep these words hidden away from our children, even though the second they hit school they are going to pick them up from another kid most likely.
Why is it that we treat these words like black sheep?
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Pssst – here’s a secret – lots of people are prudes. Not all people, but enough of them are that they’re willing to let other people tell them what they can and cannot say. And of course there’s a religious element to it, at least in the US, where many Christians believe (or at least act like they believe) using certain words is somehow an affront to God. These prudes and religious whackjobs don’t want to have to explain things to children (like what “fuck” or “cocksucker” means), so they not only restrict their own use of these words, they support policies and practices to ban others from using the words in large swaths of public spaces and communication. Of course it doesn’t work in the modern world except in insular communities, but they’re gonna keep trying anyway.
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