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In reply to the discussion: Stained frontman stops show after girl getting assaulted in crowd [View all]maddiemom
(5,180 posts)an obscenity laden rant. I'm LOL mostly because I'm a senior citizen who came of age in a culture where f***k and "s**t became normal words in many female , and most male vocabularies. My mother and grandmother( or would pretend to, to be socially correct) would get faint on hearing these words. My dad and grandfather would beg apologies if they blurted them out in mixed company. The word "friggen" appeared in Norman Mailer's works. Whoa. In college in the Sixties, a lot of us , English and language majors, absorbed the idea that taboo words were just a combination of letters, taboo only if they implied disrespect (such as derogatory terms for women), but, "s**t".etc. used as an adjective or or exclamation was just a matter of cultural conditioning. We even made up some meaningless words and pretended that they were obscenities in other parts of the country.