Are cuss words becoming more socially acceptable?

[RedRalph]

So, it seems Australian daytime soap Home and Away is introducing a new character called Count Cockula. Apparently he will be a Romanian homosexual who comes to the bay to set up a business with Sid.

This led me to think: is cussing becoming more and more acceptable? How is it in your community?

 

[NovaKart]

What are you doing watching Australian soap operas?

 

[emzie]

**** yeah they are.

 

[_random_]

That seems to be the case in general.

 

[NickyJ]

What are you doing watching Australian soap operas?

I think this is the biggest question.

Anyway, unfortunately, yes. In fact, it is growing to be a popular thing. I guess it's supposed to make you sound 'wicked kewl' or 'far out'.

 

[Miles Teg]

'wicked kewl'....'far out

I'm sorry to hear that you haven't listened to young people conversing for several decades. Or possibly ever.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Socially accepable where ?
Cockula might be perfectly fine with Australians, indecent for Americans, politically incorrect for the rest of the Anglosphere for all I know, and a groan-inducing annoyance for Romanians who are sick and tired of any and every variation of "Count ***cula".

 

[NickyJ]

I'm sorry to hear that you haven't listened to young people conversing for several decades. Or possibly ever.

Then I am extremely fortunate, because those phrases were bad enough.

Socially accepable where ?
Cockula might be perfectly fine with Australians, indecent for Americans, politically incorrect for the rest of the Anglosphere for all I know, and a groan-inducing annoyance for Romanians who are sick and tired of any and every variation of "Count ***cula".

Have you ever watched Hurt Locker? It's chock-full of cussing. You can hardly go three minutes without it. And that's only a movie. Trust me, it's socially acceptable in the U.S.

 

[Ajidica]

Yes, at least with people similar in age to me.

 

[ZeletDude]

Well usually your not allowed to cuss at school but no one listens to that of course and usually the teachers only get mad if its directed at them/another student. So yeah its becoming more accepted I mean who doesn't swear? I sure do sometimes

 

[_random_]

That seems to be the case in general.

So, to expand upon a hasty edit of a post that was a rather terrible idea in retrospect, I think it has to do with the fact that as we become more saturated with profanities, they lose their impact. My mom still cringes a little bit when she hears "suck" and "piss." Even though I can't think of anyone who would find them legitimately offensive. It would normally take "the c-word" to get me to the levels of cringing. I'd hazard to guess that by the year 2517, people will have invented new swear words like "rutting" and "gorram" to get the same impact that modern ones have.

 

[reddishrecue]

Yes the cuss words are acceptable sometimes and theres hardly any cussers. Once in awhile cussing is usual or leaked out cusses.

 

[Evie]

I hope so. The overreaction of people to perfectly harmless strings of letters (clarification: perfectly harmles string of letters not being applied to them or in a way that is pejorative against their group - I have no issues with black people being offended at the n-word and so on, just issues with people objecting to a perfectly neutral f-word) is one thing that makes me headdesk a great deal with modern society.

 

[civver_764]

It's been pretty acceptable since the late 60's it seems to me.

And yeah people seriously need ot lighten up about them.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Have you ever watched Hurt Locker? It's chock-full of cussing. You can hardly go three minutes without it. And that's only a movie. Trust me, it's socially acceptable in the U.S.

Haven't seen it yet, but isn't it supposed to be one step removed from a documentary ? The OP was referring to a daytime soap, and there are different standards for a soap opera and a (anti) war movie.

 

[Luckymoose]

Cussing has always been socially acceptable.

 

[classical_hero]

So, it seems Australian daytime soap Home and Away is introducing a new character called Count Cockula. Apparently he will be a Romanian homosexual who comes to the bay to set up a business with Sid.

This led me to think: is cussing becoming more and more acceptable? How is it in your community?

This is absolutely hilarious. First you actually watch Home and Away and secondly the name of the character. Could it be more obvious the guy is gay with a name like that, plus since he is Romanian he has to be a Count.

 

[Leonel]

They shouldn't! They should be used sparingly like when you eat your favorite food. If you eat your favorite food all the time, you get bored of it quickly, much like cuss words lose their punch and pzazz after being used constantly.

 

[RedRalph]

This is absolutely hilarious. First you actually watch Home and Away and secondly the name of the character. Could it be more obvious the guy is gay with a name like that, plus since he is Romanian he has to be a Count.

It's almost unbelievable, when you think about it

 

[Joecoolyo]

They shouldn't! They should be used sparingly like when you eat your favorite food. If you eat your favorite food all the time, you get bored of it quickly, much like cuss words lose their punch and pzazz after being used constantly.

Yup, which is why I almost never use them (except when I'm alone in my room and someone screwed me over in whatever game I was playing, then I let loose the train-o-cuss words).