Nov
04

Fucked up Perspective

Posted in Blog, Censorship, Corporate Idiots, Green Day, Shopping

When I decided I absolutely had to buy Green Day’s American Idiot album, I was on the road and stopped at the first store I thought might carry it: Wal-Mart. I couldn’t find it on the shelves so I asked a salesperson who told me they don’t sell albums with “explicit lyrics.” The fact that Wal-Mart sells bullets but won’t carry music with profanity is perfectly logical because we’ve all read the statistics on how many kids die each year from the word “fuck.”

It really is amazing to me that America, the land of the free, still has such screwed up priorities. Howard Stern has been practically forced off the public airwaves, while Tom Leykis gets to propagate misogynism to young impressionable men because he’s a bit more proficient with euphemisms. Connoisseurs of comedy have to pay to watch a quality sitcom like Curb Your Enthusiasm just because it contains a few naughty words while Joey rapidly contributes to the dumbing down of Americans on network television.

It’s not that I particularly like profanity. In fact, when someone uses it excessively they just sound ignorant. But even worse are the people who can never say a so-called “dirty word” or they use it in a censored fashion. Do people really think they’re somehow classier for saying, “the f word” instead of saying, “fuck?” I cringe when I see somebody write “n*gger” when what they mean is “nigger,” as if it’s the letter “i” that has oppressed black people all these years and a cute little asterisk somehow softens the word.

A woman I know told a tale about how upset her friend became when a guy called her “the c word.” Give me a break. You walk up to any woman and say, “You’re the c word” and she’ll be laughing too hard to get offended. Tell me he called her a “cunt” and maybe I’ll sympathize with her (unless, of course, she is one). Otherwise, don’t bother telling a story if you can’t tell it accurately.

I remember my sophomore English teacher telling the class, “Instead of calling somebody an ‘asshole,’ call him a ‘dolt’ or ‘dullard.’” That’s one hell of an English teacher who instructs his class to water down their statements with ineffectual words. Sadly, I think his message reflects the backward mentality of too many Americans: it’s perfectly fine to express a negative sentiment as long as you use an acceptable combination of letters.

I know I’m not saying anything new or profound here, I just really can’t comprehend the hang up people have with certain words. Let’s get the proper perspective on the problems that actually harm our society. But leave the vowels alone.

Frankly, I’m glad that I was unable to purchase American Idiot, an album that deals so much with the bullshit and hypocrisy in America, at Wal-Mart. Those sanctimonious assholes don’t deserve my 14 bucks.


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7 Responses to “Fucked up Perspective”

  1. cinnamon-cannelle on November 4th, 2005 12:00 am wrote:

    I just wanted to tell you that I love your post. I enjoy reading your point of view on the Us’s ways. I happen to agree quite a lot with it. it’s just very hypocritical. It’s always good to know that some people know how to open their eyes.
    Keep on with your messages.

  2. Semaj on November 4th, 2005 12:00 am wrote:

    I agree with your post about 75%. I do believe that Network tv has been dumbed down to the point I stopped watching anything on the big three (and FOX, UPN, and WB) I spend more of my time on HBO than anything else.

    But, I have to admit that I censor my words, like F’ yeah and Sh*t, but that’s because that’s how I talk in Real Life. But, we do seem to get caught up on certain words.

    BTW, just dropped by through random blog hopping, I like your style of writing. Keep blogging

  3. Tennessee Bard on November 4th, 2005 12:00 am wrote:

    Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck…always fuck this, fuck broads, etc. Howard Stern was certainly “fucked” up the proverbial asshole (or should I refrain from using the latter obscenity and just say “anal cavity” or even the ol’ tried and true “butthole”?), but he can always rest assured that is profitting nicely from his new contract with Sirius satellite radio. Of course, that is off the subject :).

    Wal-Mart is home to the fucktards of the world (there I go again!). I mean, don’t the people who shop there scare you? Many of them look imbred. I’m not sure where you’re from, for I haven’t looked at your profile to see if that information has been made available to your readers, but here in Tennessee, we do unfortunately have rednecks littering these stores who think God is the end-all of everything that is, was, and will ever be (and thus, I have opened up a new topic for you, the idea of religion in America and how it is carried to extremes). Hell, half of those hicks would stroke out if they ever listened to half of what I say when I’m enraged, like, “Jesus Fucking Christ,” which is regretable to say the least. Anyway, to put this bad boy to bed, I’ll just say that I shop at Target far more often than Wal-Mart.

    Anyway, you’re cool. Keep churning those thoughts. I don’t know if you are into poetry, but if you are, read some of my stuff sometime. The topics of the poetry are wide in variety and yes, I never mince any words in my work.
    Take care, and keep discussing your take on the bricks society both in the U.S. as well as around the world shits out.

  4. Jen on November 5th, 2005 12:00 am wrote:

    Thanks to all for your comments. However, I think you missed my point, semaj. If for some reason you have to write down “sh*t,” why wouldn’t you write “shit?” The asterisk doesn’t change the meaning, just the clarity.

  5. Semaj on November 5th, 2005 12:00 am wrote:

    It’s more of a inside joke with the way that ppl on radio speak cuss words like how Howard Stern has to say F’ or Shit=sh*t.

  6. johnny a on August 8th, 2006 12:00 am wrote:

    EAT A DICK.

  7. fred milter on July 23rd, 2007 5:11 pm wrote:

    What you don’t realize is that when you buy bullets they take you to a special room in the back of Walmart.Here you listen to raunchy music,watch porno movies and Walmart matrons serve great mixed drinks and jump up and down on command.Sorry you had a bad experience. Bill Clinton

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