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by conjurer » November 26th 2024, 12:34am
I recall growing up in Chicago, where my dad, who wasn't a stranger to salty language, sometimes growled "goddamn", or "bastard." or "son of a bitch." I never heard him utter the F-bomb, or, as we like to say here at Watchlords, "fuck."
My mother, who was possibly seriously mentally ill and certainly died that way, never swore that I can recall--and I remember her putting on while cotton gloves before loading us into the Pontiac to take us kids to the doctor. My older brother, who often caught the sharp edge of her tongue, recalls vividly her profanity in the harshest terms. She, being a dyed in the wool WASP, thought that the "N" word to be vulgar, and WASPs shouldn't be vulgar. During the civil rights era, she would speak glowingly of "our black brothers". Later in life, now belonging to a black church (rather than a stoutly WASP Presbyterian one), I recall her speaking about taking a ham to the church's pot luck, Why? Because, she told me, "the coloreds love ham!" I related this to my older brother, a staunch conservative, even he blanched in horror. But what can I say? She was fucking nutz.
Normally, even the squish liberal that I am, I would suggest that, although I believe in free speech, constantly saying "fuck" in front of one's children would lead to a coarsening and destabilizing would be unwise.
But, what the fuck. Let's let the cunt in!
