I Cuss Because You Fucking Need To Feel Uncomfortable

[joreth]

This is partly why I cuss.  I deliberately and consciously include swear words in my vocabulary for 2 reasons:

1) to point out the arbitrariness of assigning an "offensive" value to a collection of sounds when a different collection of sounds with the same meaning is acceptable;

and 2) because of this.  I'm swearing because the topic deserves to be cussed out.  I swear because the content is worthy of all the rage and offense that comes with "bad words".  I swear because fuck you if you are more concerned about those 4 letters in that order than about the violence, brutality, and evil I am using those 4 letters to talk about.

My all-time highest shared post was also one of my angriest.  It was a cuss-laden rant about fuckers adding anti-trans bathroom bills to their local legislation.  I got bombarded with "I like the sentiment but you shouldn't use so many bad words because I can't share this on my timeline" and "well I would agree with you but your language is so foul that it turned me off your argument".

Unfortunately for them, I also got bombarded with share notifications.  It may not have gotten news media attention and re-shared by celebrities or buzzfeed or whatever, but pretty much all of my shares are in the double digits or less, while this one hit 4 digits.

So fuck them and fuck you if you are more concerned with the comfort of the reader over language use than what that language is used to say.
 The N-word is "bad" because of what it *means*.  "Bitch" is bad because of what it *means*.  "Shit" is not bad because it's acceptable to say "poop" in its place.  If the meaning stays the same while the letters change, then clearly the meaning is not bad.  "Asshole" is not bad when you're talking about an anus, but probably bad when you're calling someone one because the first is a neutral meaning and the second is a deliberate insult.  The meaning is what makes the word "bad".

"Fuck" is not bad when it doesn't mean anything you wouldn't want to say anyway, just as long as you don't use those specific 4 letters in that specific order.  If you are so uncomfortable over the presence of certain letters than the topic being discussed, then you're just looking for a reason to not hear the message.

Because this shit is far more disturbing than a bunch of arbitrary, random sounds that we've designated as "bad".