What the Fuck?

That F word is used in a myriad of ways today, few of them having to do with sexual intercourse.  It’s a common epithet, exclamation and exculpatory adjective; no fucking way.  It’s a colorful word no doubt.  John T. McWorter, writing for the Washington Post, looks at the F word and the FCC’s recent ruling that proclaims the F word is not “patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium." Yeah, tell that to my mother.

The entire piece is here.

Via Arts & Letters Daily.

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