Now language…yes, I use very colorful language. No I wasn’t raised that way. It was drilled into my head at a young age ” girls just don’t do that, it’s un-lady like.” Yet at family functions when all of the female members were together, there was a few choice words used. Somehow over the years woman have begun to speak our minds without censoring our words. It happens. It’s more a society issue. We have dropped the ball on a lot if things, like making it ok to wear our pants down past our butts and girls dressing like hookers. It’s a change in our way of living, just like growing up we were discipline, now a days, you mention spanking a child you are labeled a bad parent.

One is this supposed advancement in Women’s liberation, which in my view has actually gone backward with the promotion of the every day use of foul language and general tarting up. I think womens organizations have sold out due to politics. It seems if the political side is the correct one, it’s not to be questioned. I speak mostly about the encouraging of sexual exploitation.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono had a song, “Woman Is The Nigger Of The World” in which he decried how we (men) “make her paint her face and dance.” That was the original idea of women’s lib. But then it was decided somehow that as long as it was her idea to be or act like a pig, no problem. Nevermind that it promotes discrimination against those women who aren’t considered “attractive,” or that it encourages young men to treat women with less respect, like calling them hos and such. That seems cool and titillating and all, that is, unless these women want to grow up at some point and marry respectful men. It also dirties the pool of potential nice guys for the nice girls to marry.

The new generations fall into the same trap as those who preceded them, in thinking that everything they do is better, or more enlightened. Guys will always be guys because of their hormones, and “Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free” isn’t just some quaint, old world term. It’s reality.

Then there’s the exploitation of youth by political and business interests. They use sex, and shock, and all things naughty to draw in their audience under the guise that they are being all grown up and liberated, when they’re really just using it to control them into following a political agenda or buy products.

And of course, there’s the foolishness of the youth themselves buying into the whole thing, including the tattoos. Personally, I don’t like them either, especially when a young person with beautiful skin is deliberately marring themselves. One day they’ll wish they still had that youthful glow. And as you suggest, it’s mostly about going along with the crowd. I never fell into that trap. Young people rebel against controlling parents by letting their peers control them instead. Duhhh. Congratulations, genius! Maybe the first few got tats to be rebellious, but the majority do it because they want to fit in. They’re just going along with the crowd, looking for that same approval, as you said.

Finally, getting back to the original topic of cursing. It’s the same story, but they’re ruining the value of expletives by overusing them. I believe they should be saved for special occasions, like when you’re truly pissed off, or when it’s REALLY funny. If you use them all the time, they’re almost never funny because they’re already expected. It takes higher intelligence to pick and choose those times.

That’s it. Enjoyed your post Tony. This has been a blog in a blog courtesy of TrappDog!