Profanity

When Did The F-Word Go Mainstream?

Ann Brenoff | Posted 05.07.2013 | Fifty

Read More: Cussing, post50, Who Uses Profanity, Cursing, Profanity, Using Profanity, post50 Culture, Lmfao, Stfu, Honestly Wtf, Andrew Malcolm, Fifty News

WTF is up with all the profanity being used these days? I get that most people have the occasional drunken sailor moment, but nowadays, I encounter profanity everywhere I turn. I admit I'm turning a lot to social media, which is doused in it.

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The Onion, the Oscars, the Misplaced Outrage

Matt Kirshen | Posted 04.28.2013 | Comedy

Read More: Quvenzhane Wallis Oscar, The Onion Quvenzhane Wallis, The Onion, Quvenzhane Wallis, Humor, Profanity, Satire, Oscars 2013, Oscars, Academy Awards 2013, Academy Awards, Comedy News

The Onion's joke only works because Quvenzhané Wallis is 100 percent blameless; she is the embodiment of innocence. She's the very last person you'd ever call that, and that's what powers the joke.

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The Onion, The "C" Word And Lent

Rev. Emily C. Heath | Posted 04.27.2013 | Religion

Read More: The Onion, Dessa, Quvenzhane Wallis, Regressive Language, Jesus Christ, Profanity, Lent, Religion News

Our words are our witness, and whether they are camera-ready or not doesn't matter. But how they change the world for the worse will... and for longer than it takes to say them.

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My Son's Very Unfortunate Mispronunciation

Caren Chesler | Posted 04.17.2013 | Parents

Read More: Language, Children and Language, Four-Letter Words, Profanity, Foul Language, Respect, Cursing in Front of Children, Kids and Language, Cursing, Learning to Talk, Potty Training, Parents-Moms, Parents News

Friends had warned me if I didn't clean up my language, it was going to rub off on my son.

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Catholic School Creates 'No-Swearing Pledge'

The Huffington Post | Katherine Bindley | Posted 02.05.2013 | Religion

Read More: Girls and Swearing, Video, Profanity, Profanities, Foul Language, No Swearing Pledge, No Cursing Pledge, Cursing, Queen of Peace High School, Catholic Schools, Swearing, Religion News

A New Jersey Catholic school is facing accusations of sexism after a teacher proposed that the girls take a pledge not to swear for the month of Febru...

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Can Profanity Help Your Career?

Robert Pagliarini | Posted 01.07.2013 | Business

Read More: Swearing at Work, How Get Job, WTF Palin, Profanity, Sarah Palin, Cuss Words, Get Job, Career Tips, Profanity at Work, Swearing, Video, Business News

Your boss, clients, investors, or constituents need to see that you care. When things go badly, they want someone who jumps to action. They want to feel that you care more deeply about the problem than they do. They want someone to get upset, and maybe even swear a little.

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Dear New York Times: Women Curse

Margaret Wheeler Johnson | Posted 03.05.2013 | Women

Read More: Women's Magazines, Christine Haughney, Women and Media, Body Image, Profanity, Marie Claire Magazine, Glamour Magazine, Cursing, Women in Media, Women News

Everyone, there's cursing in the lady mags. Someone dispatch one of Emily Post's descendants to the Conde Nast building STAT.

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WATCH: Woman Thrown In Jail For Cursing

The Huffington Post | Ryan Grenoble | Posted 01.02.2013 | Crime

The worst punishment most children endure for cursing is getting their mouths washed out with soap. For LaRue Ford, a 49-year-old woman, the punishmen...

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After Beckham, What Next for North American Soccer?

Steve Clare | Posted 02.18.2013 | Sports

Read More: Mls Journalists, Television, Mls Popularity, Unions, Soccer Popularity, Soccer Journalists, Profanity, Mls, David Beckham, Writers Unions, Soccer Writers Unions, Soccer Writing, Soccer, Supporters, Sports News, Sports News

It's not that I necessarily think the New York Cosmos is a bad idea for MLS's 20th franchise. I just think expanding the league to the south east is a more important prerogative.

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Summer Reading Assignment Stirs Up Controversy At Tennessee STEM School

Posted 08.15.2012 | Home

Read More: Summer Reading, Tennessee Schools, Book Controversy, Banned Books, School Reading Lists, Profanity, Tennessee, Profanity in Writing, STEM Education, Hardin Valley Academy, Robopocalypse, Parents, Video, Home News

The parents of a 14-year-old rising freshman at Hardin Valley Academy in Tennessee have taken issue with their son and his 450 classmates in the STEM ...

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Profanity and Grammar: Lessons From History

William B. Bradshaw | Posted 09.26.2012 | Books

Read More: Gone With the Wind, Language, Grammar, Profanity, Books, Writing, Manners, Profanity Books, Profanity and Grammar, Profane Speech, Books News

The abundant use of profanity is one of the significant signs of what I call the "dumbing down of America." The excessive, needless, and inappropriate use of profane, coarse, crude, tasteless, and obscene language is becoming the norm.

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Ted: Count Me Among the Haters

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 09.02.2012 | Entertainment

Read More: Seth MacFarlane, Flash Gordon, Mark Wahlberg, Profanity, Teddy Bears, Entertainment News

Ted is a movie you will either love or hate. Mark me down as one of the haters. I didn't laugh; I wasn't charmed.

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What the F***?

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 08.21.2012 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, First Amendment, Fcc, Fleeting Expletives, Profanity, Free Speech, FCC vs. Fox, Supreme Court Fleeting Expletives, FCC Dirty Words, Supreme Court Expletives, Politics News

Yesterday, the Supreme Court decided FCC v. Fox Television Stations. What's the real significance of the case? It is this: Throughout its opinion, the Court repeatedly wrote f*** and s***. It declined to acknowledge the actual words at stake. This is depressing.

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Another Fornicating Play

Howard Sherman | Posted 08.15.2012 | Home

Read More: Theatre, Marketing, Theater, Controversy, Playwriting, Obscenity, Profanity, Playbill, Aaron Posner, Home News

We may be a country founded on free speech, but our ongoing inability to define pornography and obscenity creates a grey area; inflammatory words employed knowingly for artistic and cultural reasons are verboten.

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Debate: Should You Be Able To Do As You Please In The Skies?

Katherine Patke | Posted 06.01.2012 | Travel

Read More: Debate, Public Space, Decorum, Profanity, Personal Space, Airplanes, American Airlines, Airlines, Air Travel, Travel News

Last week the story of a woman who was removed from an American Airlines flight by pilots because of her offensive clothing became big news. American ...

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It Might Help If You Curse A Little More At Work

Wall Street Journal | Joann S. Lublin | Posted 07.25.2012 | Home

Read More: Leadership, Leadership Tactics, Workplace, Carol Bartz, Profanity, Cursing at Work, Career Advice for Women, Curse Words, Workplace Behavior, Home News

Carol Bartz, fired as chief executive of Yahoo Inc. YHOO -0.20% last September, wishes she did one thing differently during her troubled tenure. "I...

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Why Cursing At Work Is A Good Thing

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 03.25.2012 | Business

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Wall Street, Profanity, Business News, Reporters, Carol Bartz, Profane Speech, Timothy Geithner, F-Bomb, Cussing, Swearing, Business News

Common knowledge says spewing out profanity-laden language to let out your frustrations at work isn't the best idea. That may be a misguided assumpti...

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The 'Right Words' For Your Child Might Be Profane

Lisa Belkin | Posted 03.24.2012 | Parents

Read More: Good Luck Charms, 2012 Superbowl, Call Your Mother, Dave Tollefson, Profanity, Sons and Mothers, New York Giants, Parents News

Before every game, hulking football defensive end Dave Tollefson calls his mother. Then she curses at him for awhile before he heads off to the field.

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A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas Is a Very Raunchy Movie

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 01.08.2012 | Entertainment

Read More: John Cho, Neil Patrick Harris, Profanity, Kal Penn, Drug Usage, Sacrilegious Material, Graphic Nudity, Entertainment News

This movie has something in it to offend just about anyone. It is sacrilegious to the extreme; it has graphic nudity; it has sexual situations and gross humor; it has no redemptive value.

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Nice Girls Don't: My Language, What It Says About Me -- And What It Doesn't

Vicki Abelson | Posted 12.09.2011 | Women

Read More: Women's Empowerment, Language, Women's Language, Freedom in Language, Profanity, Perception of Women, Profanity in Writing, Women News

Until a few years ago, I don't think I'd ever written a curse word on a public forum. Then I thought, to hell with that.

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Suburb Legalizes Swearing By Repealing Rarely Enforced Ordinance

Posted 12.05.2011 | Chicago

Northwest suburban Park Ridge residents will now be able to swear, legally, thanks to a local law being stripped from the books. The Park Ridge Cit...

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Parents and Media Ratings: Context Isn't a New Concept

David Kleeman | Posted 08.21.2011 | Media

Read More: Sexualization, Internet, Television, TV Ratings, Research, Children, V-Chip, Profanity, Violence, Common Sense Media, Fred Rogers Center, Children's Television, Media, Video Games, Parents Television Council, Movies, Media News

In the July issue of "Pediatrics," a research team headed by Iowa State's Douglas Gentile found that parents are not satisfied with age-based rating s...

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Holy $#&@! Study Shows 47% Of Facebook Walls Contain Profanity

The Huffington Post | Steven Hoffer | Posted 07.24.2011 | Technology

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Whether it's gossip among friends or reacting to the latest unbelievable viral video, the chatter on Facebook tends to elicit emotional and visceral r...

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Brewery Sues To Run 'Raging Bitch' IPA Label

DCist | Posted 06.04.2011 | Home

Read More: Food Lawsuits, Raging Bitch Belgian-Style Indian Pale Ale, Profanity, Beer, Beer Labels, Ipa, Michigan Liquor Control Commission, Ralph Steadman, Flying Dog Brewery, Home News

When it comes to bastions of decency and decorum, beer isn't necessarily the first place one would think to look for them. But according to Maryland-b...

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Burger King Employees Fired Over F*ck You-Laden Receipt

NBC Bay Area | Posted 05.31.2011 | Home

Read More: Burger King Fuck You Receipt, Fast Food, Burger King Recept, Burger King Firings, Profanity, Burger King, Home News

Burger King corporate stepped in and fired two of its employees after a drive through receipt with some choice words made it on national television. ...

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