[lbo-talk] AFA alarmed at the f-word

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Nov 16 08:02:22 PST 2003


Shane Mage wrote:


>Can anyone discover a rationale for the FCC permitting
>"fuck you" but banning "fuck me?"

Yes. The rationale is that it's ok to use "fuck" and "shit" figuratively but not to refer to sexual or excretory functions. So "that's fuckin' great" and "I don't give a shit" are ok - but not "I wanna fuck him" or "I gotta take a shit." Isn't that beautiful? I'm sure professors of semiotics are hard at work parsing this.

Doug



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