This question is about cuss words...?

Good question (I like how you were so careful ;-D). We're the same way about the GD word. I'd LOVE that new Fallout Boy song, but that one blip... aw, MAN!

I don't really know that answer but I bet there isn't a good answer to why any curse words are allowed, especially on prime time. They're even getting to just CURSE practically by bleaping only the middle of words with a really silent beep that they pretty much could just have KEPT! I don't know. I try not to curse, too. It's a dirty dirty thang.

Every word has it's own meaning. The F work for example. Remember what it's a slang term for. That's one of the reasons. The other is slowly more is getting onto TV and soon very few words will be taboo on TV. Watch an episode of The Shield ot Dirt and tell me that back twenty years ago the episode would be R rated now it's just M.

I think the the slang term for a curse word has a lot to do with it. The F word and the C word are two you never hear on TV and I think it's because of what they represent.

This is something that's been nagging at me lately. In a story I'm working on, one of the characters, a young girl, is learning about swearing. For one, she is only allowed to swear around her father and no one else; since her father does it a lot, he feels that if he prohibited her from swearing, he'd be a hypocrite, so he allows her to do so, but only in his presence. The problem is that she believes that sh**, fu** and others can only be used by adults; however, she feels that others, such as "dog crap," "crotch crickets" and others can be used by people of all ages. This inadvertantly gets her into trouble, unless those who hear her say those phrases consider them amusing. It's a conundrum, to say the least... And as others have already answered, the words change almost constantly, although the S and F words have remained mostly unchanged over the course of centuries.

as " old will" wrote hundreds of years ago," Nothing is good or bad except thinking makes it so" That seems to say to me that you are giving power to the words by believing that they are BAD.Yet I agree with you on this and feel that if I watched TV and did not like the content, I would complain to the people who allowed the content to be broadcast. Research a bit, find out who is responsible and how to contact them and do it. If you can get a few friends and family to do it with you , even better. Good Luck with this, and don't give up!!

I believe profanity is creeping more and more into our every day vernacular and media is drenched in it. Media, Television, Movies and such are always trying to up the ante more and more to ever desensitized patrons. I think some profanity remains more off limits because it contains references to god and people still have that little saying do not take the lords name in vain ingrained in them. I have been in need of a bar of soap myself a few times however my opinion is profanity is being way over used and gratuitous these days.

My grandmother had an expression for profanity that I always liked. It goes, "Profanity is the refuge of the ignorant. An intelligent person can find a way to say the same thing with out it."

So what exactly makes a cuss word a cuss word?

Because someone once hey, don't say that word it's bad!

...Makes no sense to me.

If that is the case then I pronounce THE to be a bad word and everyone who uses it should be shunned!

Cuss words are like clothing the times change and public views change.

I think that the TV networks are inconsistent and more bad language is being allowed on our airwaves. Maybe you could ask the FCC this question.

I totally know what you mean. They probably think that just because God is is a part of CERTAIN religions in a million, no one cares. They should just bleep it out.