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i only reconize "swear words" by the censors that surround them. its just a stupid taboo. the f word has its roots in christianity about sex and christian morals. if my kid asked why he got in trouble in school for saying the f word, i would say "its a long story, but it all started with religious opression."
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I don't think 'swearing' has anything to do with religion. Plenty of non-religious people refrain from swearing. They are just words which have a meaning which originally people found distasteful, and because they have a strong impact people use them to show anger or emphasise something.
Swearing in itself is a strange issue though. Suffice it to say that even if you approve of swearing, or don't even regard 'swearwords' as anything special, they have a specific use in language - to emphasise and express feelings. If they are overused then they lose that meaning. For some, their use shows a lack of vocabulary or is just an attempt to sound big cos they can use tough words.
Not to mention that those words are often used to mean something completely irrelavent to their true meaning. S/He might use it, but does your kid actually know the meaning of the f word?
Don't get me wrong, I swear plenty in certain company and situations. But I don't force it on others 24/7, because I know that for their own reasons, others don't like it, and I have respect for other people.
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i will buy the porn issue. but sex and nudity are not the same. so what if the kid sees nude images. i do not want my kid raised thinking nudity and sex are a dirty bad thing. intercourse is difficult to explain to a toddler tho
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I think it's OK for young kids to see nudity in general, not to be ashamed of themselves, and I agree they should not see sex or nudity as anything dirty or bad. I also don't want them to think its OK to just whip all their clothes off in the middle of the street every time we go shopping.
But how do you explain why there are magazines with breasts and genitalia, and phrases they can read and ask questions about on the covers without mentioning the sex issue? Sex is the only reason we have porn. And I will choose when to educate my children on that issue when I feel they are ready - not because some people object to being prevented from offending people, thus they are exposed to it at random times when they may not yet be ready.
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i would buy my kids any of those shirts
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You would buy your 6/7/8/9/10 year old daughter a T-Shirt saying
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"Dear Auntie Em I hate Kansas I ****ing wish you were dead Im leavin and im taking the dog too. Dorothy"
"Suicide Bummer" (with grenade being inserted up said bum)
"Cock - Taste the Difference"
"Good in bed - better against a wall"
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etc etc?
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i love wearing shirst like that, esspecially to express my self to little old grannies.f**k em if they cant take a joke
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Theres a big difference between expressing an opinion to those who might care about it in a joking fashion, and forcing your opinion into other peoples faces, in the full knowledge you are doing it only to offend.