Gosh Darn It All to Heck!!

March 29, 2014

A culture’s insecurities, obsessions, and foibles  can be easily deconstructed through an examination of their profanity. Dirty words build connotations in our children – we pass on to them the hang-ups that our forefathers passed along to us. For example, the bulk of my countrymen’s and women’s expletives revolve around sex or excrement. Begin mentally listing them. Go on. I have time…very few do not fall under one of those headings, correct?

Interesting to contemplate, yes?

Why call someone a coward? or chicken, or yellow, or lily-livered when pussy not only doubles nicely, but also allows for the added inference of female genitally culturally equating to weakness? So much more deriding than poultry, I suppose to some.

I wonder are these terms dubbed vulgar because of religious overtures? Sex and sin. Sex and vice. How many gods were born of a virgin mother? Such a common motif isn’t it? Heaven forbid something go in before something else came out. Odd the evolution of devotion that goes from Venus de Willendorf to immaculate conception. Possibly a smidgen of juvenile petulance tossed in against the Judeo-Christian commandment not to take the Lord’s name in vain. “Fine! If I can’t ask God to damn the door frame when I stub my toe on it, then I’ll yell doodie!”

Or, do such words continue their foul heritage because they simply sell so well? Dirty words, boys and girls, don’t say them. Dirty sex, guys and dolls, don’t do it. What does basic psychology tell us will happen when these dictates are presented to people? Hmm? So, if we tell them not to and that will only make them indulge that much faster, then why shouldn’t those of high financial bearing reap a profit off of the masses’ childlike predictability?

Sell it. Worship it. Do it…but, just don’t say it.

~Nick Shamhart