Fuck is the most powerful word.
Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper Series No. 59 by Christopher M. Fairman (ironic name, that) is entitled, "Fuck." It's 78 pages long (albeit double-spaced), filled with examples of legal cases and copious footnotes.
It's about euphemisms, free speech, taboo words, and how the law works. There are stories about how fuck can get you arrested, thrown off a plane, and cited for violating statutes from 1897. Delightful conclusions abound, such as:
The [FCC] Commissioners censor fuck because it’s a word that they don’t like to hear. That is, unless it’s in a good movie or on cable.An ongoing theme is that although fuck certainly has sexual connotations, it's most often used as an interjection or adjective with no intrinsic meaning. But it still gets into lots of trouble.
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4 comments:
oh, Fuck
Come on, someone was going to put it in your comments. Why not be first?
Did you get reported chuck?
there was a girl at the strip club whose name was charlie. The announcer said it was "the chuck you'd like to fuck".
I believe that's the intercourse version.
This has been a liberating series of comments so far. Just be careful, because if you don't use the word I'm fucking deleting you.
wtf?
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