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In reply to the discussion: Say whatever horrible word you want which expresses your terrible sentiment. [View all]frazzled
(18,402 posts)I realize that it can occasionally be humorous, but a steady diet of foul name-calling can be numbingly tiresome and lose its impact, even. At that point, in excess, it just becomes ... disgusting piggishness in itself.
If you have an argument to make, try making it in a logical, convincing, non-hysterical, non-offensive way. And if, to express your anger you need to throw an f-bomb or two, so be it. Unmitigated cursing is NEVER, however, a substitute for real thought.
I remember quite a number of years ago, when the expression "whiny ass titty baby" cropped up on the blog Eschaton as an epithet for, well, almost anybody its author didn't like. He even began a "Whiny Ass Titty Baby of the Day" rubric (see http://www.eschatonblog.com/2008/04/whiny-ass-titty-baby-of-day.html ) I found the phrase so incredibly offensive, even when applied to people with whom I disagreed violently, that I stopped reading that site forever. Really.Buh-bye. It was that bad.
That said, I can't stop remembering a cartoon I saw in the New Yorker a hundred years ago (well, maybe in the 1980s or early 90s). It was an image of a man hunched over in a pay-telephone booth, and the caption read something like: "Is this Miss Johnson, the kindergarten teacher? This is an obscene phone call: sissy caca tushie boom boom." I laughed so hard I've never forgotten it. Was it crude? Yeah. But it was also a reminder of how truly juvenile such name-calling can be.