It's recently come to my attention that, among some of the more juvenile aspects of this forum, there is a disparity in the way that we approach language and how others communicate. The site asks us not to use obscene content. So let's explore obscenity.

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Recently, my wife had written a post about the passage of HR 1955, The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007. In the beginning of the post she used the term 'mother fucking' to describe our congress because of her passion about over what a horrible job our congress is doing. There were many responses to her post chastising her for her use of the vernacular. Because of this myopia, people failed to actually engage in the issue. Some even went so far as to ask what a college girl knows about anything, failing to realize that she knew about HR 1955 when most of America still doesn't know about it.

In short, one term, a number of responses about the term, and no actual engagement.

In the haze of that event FoS writes Link
"Real Women Don't B*tch / An Open Letter to Hillary Clinton. In this post FoS uses b*tch a good number of times, and in comments eventually drops the asterisk, and pens a shit as well. Other chime in with the unedited version of bitch

Now let's take a look at the use of the asterisk as a tool of censorship. Often times when censoring the vernacular people use characters such as @$%-#*&. There, you have no idea what that could be other than a six letter word. It was Chenney. With b*tch we are left with a few options: batch, bitch, botch, and butch... Not quite that cleverly masked, but then it was never intended to be.

Which brings me to intent. Nicole was condemning the actions of an overwhelming House. HR 1955 is vague and should have been handled by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, but for some reason in our post 9/11 world we can't have anything premillennial. In this case the term mother fucking has no sexual connotation, it refers to the act of taking advantage of providing figures in a/an social, economic, legal, emotional, physical, or cultural way. And personally, I tend to see the Constitution as the Mother of all of our liberties, and yes, congress is fucking her.

In FoS's post the bitch is used both as a verb and a noun. But that wasn't really the most obscene part of it. That was in the comments that came on the post. Comments about the size of people's penis is elementary fashion, hyphenated, as if... for extension. Although I must say my personal favorite is the 'G-d' to be code for "God". You see, by putting "God" in hyphen's I'm not taking the "Lord's" name in sake.

We should pull out our obscenity check list right about now. Has any of this tried to arouse you sexually in a lewd manner... I certainly hope you don't perceive it to have been intended that way, but if you do I think I might find you obscene.

I suppose I'll leave you all to decide if this is moral. Perhaps the conversation will be interesting.