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I guess I should tell you (being the reader) about me. I'm not going to say my name and school and age, because then I might as well just give you my social security number and blood type and invite you to steal my identity. So I'll just talk about my likes and stuff like that. I like music (but I'm bad at finding new bands), I like reading (Harry Potter is my personal bible), I like eating, and I really enjoy swearing. For some reason it always seems to get a point across, and make me feel all around more badass, yet it always seems to get me in trouble.

For example, I'll be in PE, and drop a 30-pound weight on my foot. Naturally, I scream, "Holy Mother fucking Jesus God, Fuck me in the fucking face, that hurt like a mother fucker." And for some reason, my PE teacher, and all around hard ass, makes me do pushups. Having absolutely no upper body strength, this action simply makes me want to call him an ass wipe, and yet I can't.

In another situation, I'll be talking to my friends, in a completely private conversation, not even meant for parental units or teachers ears, and be talking about one of the hottest guys (in my opinion) in the world, and say, "I would fuck that guy in the face a zillion times, if ever given the opportunity." (friends can vouch, I do actually say this). And some nosy teacher walking behind me happens to be eaves-dropping (get a life, seriously, eaves-dropping on students?), and gives me a study table (basically a euphemism for detention).

Yet, it doesn't make sense because I can be in class screaming, "MERDE" (French for shit), "Bloody" (British for fuck), and "Sheisse" (German for shit), and not get in trouble, just because in the English language, those words weren't considered bad.

I don't even understand why certain words have such a negative connotation. Just because some nun somewhere suddenly decided that the word "shit" would be a curse word. I mean, she could have just as easily decided that the word "grape" was a swear word, and the word "shit" meant grapes. So then I would be sitting at the kitchen table asking my mom to pass the shits, and getting in trouble for saying grape.

So this is just a big "FUCK YOU" to all the people in the world who decided that certain words in the English language would be forbidden, especially for girls. I, personally, don't give a shit what you think, and I'll say whatever the hell I want to say.



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