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Stephen Pinker: What the F***?
Stephen Pinker: What the F***?
www.tnr.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20071008&s=pinker100807

Post date: 7.10.9
Issue date: 7.10.8

Why we curse.


F *ucking became the subject of congressional debate in 2003, after
NBC broadcast the Golden Globe Awards. Bono, lead singer of the
mega-band U2, was accepting a prize on behalf of the group and in
his euphoria exclaimed, "This is really, really, fucking brilliant"
on the air. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which is
charged with monitoring the nation's airwaves for indecency,
decided somewhat surprisingly not to sanction the network for
failing to bleep out the word. Explaining its decision, the FCC
noted that its guidelines define "indecency" as "material that
describes or depicts sexual or excretory organs or activities" and
Bono had used fucking as "an adjective or expletive to emphasize an
exclamation."

---snip---
I think we use the very words that describe the ways "they" try to repress us.
ex: Religion controls sex  etc etc ~ KE

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