(July 6, 2016 at 9:58 am)Alex K Wrote:

(July 6, 2016 at 9:53 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: I just try to call everyone an asshole. Totally gender neutral and still satisfying.

Having sat in on a number of colostoma surgeries, I must tell you that your assumption that all assholes are equal is very cis-anally discriminatory.

You know me, I'm very anal-normative.

Losty Wrote:Just like when I say "fuck that shit" I am not using the terms to mean sex with poop

CL is missing out.

(July 6, 2016 at 10:00 am)Losty Wrote:

(July 6, 2016 at 9:51 am)Alex K Wrote: Why do you think the argument is ridiculous?

Because when you call someone a cunt or a pussy or a dick or an asshole you are not thinking that any of these body parts are offensive or shameful or dirty. You're not thinking about body parts at all. You're using the swear word version. I can't technically speak for everyone else but I don't think anyone else is thinking about body parts either. Just like when I say "fuck that shit" I am not using the terms to mean sex with poop and I am not thinking about sex with poop when I say them. I am using the universal negative "fuck" and "shit" which are both used as swear words to mean pretty much anything we don't like.


Think about this, when you use the word fuck are you promoting the idea that sex is shameful, dirty, or offensive? I don't think so.

Maybe very indirectly. Steven Pinker quoted some neuroscience research in a talk of his that swear words are so powerful because they bypass certain filters in the brain and immediately create an emotional impact. Why do they do accomplish in the first place, i.e. what makes them special? That is likely due to their original emotionally charged content.

They come from like their own area in the brain. That's why (only about 20%) of some Tourette Syndrome sufferers have swearwords for tics, because that's the part of the brain it effects. I think.

I used to own the book that Steven Pinker wrote on the matter. The Stuff of Thought: Language As A Window Into Human Nature.

Something like that.

Not just "very indirectly" but unconsciously, anyway. So it's not really "us". Ourselves, but not our selves.

The day I am prohibited from usinf whatever vocabulary I deem appropriate - especially one of the oldest words in the English language - is the day I say goodbye to this august forum.

(July 6, 2016 at 11:03 am)Stimbo Wrote: The day I am prohibited from usinf whatever vocabulary I deem appropriate - especially one of the oldest words in the English language - is the day I say goodbye to this august forum.

Sorry but you are not allowed to use "usinf".  Time for you to go, grasshopper.  

(July 6, 2016 at 9:45 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: AND THE DIRTY FORESKINS CUT EM ALL OFF

Best trolling ever.

(July 6, 2016 at 9:43 am)Whateverist the White Wrote:

(July 6, 2016 at 9:17 am)Tiberius Wrote: [...]
You should watch the "pussies get fucked by dicks, but dicks also fuck assholes" speech from Team America, it's very enlightening on this matter.

Links or it didn't happen.

I fucking love that (those) speech (speeches).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2GwrR-4Q9E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcAaertdaQk

(July 6, 2016 at 11:03 am)Stimbo Wrote: The day I am prohibited from usinf whatever vocabulary I deem appropriate - especially one of the oldest words in the English language - is the day I say goodbye to this august forum.

I propose a deal: you can say cunt as long as you don't show your nipples. You can't possibly decline this generous compromise!