Reply #11: Profanity [View All]

[undergroundpanther]

at an idea a concept a behavior..is not verbal abuse.

I suggest we go after verbal abuse where a bully is using words profane or not to make a person become dehumanized.

To me, someone calling iraqis Rag heads is way more offensive than someone who's outraged and frustrated saying.. Fuck Bush and his damn torture games!

Cussing is only cussing because of what you have been taught by others to believe about words .Question that belief ask yourself why
you feel this way about what OTHERS say.And ask why your assume your offense at certain words entitles you to control others expressions of strong emotion..
A secret..
Cuss words lose the power to offend when you realize you are the one giving the cuss words the power of such offending significance in your mind when you personalize it,when it isn't even directed at you as a verbal abuse weapon..Waving a sword safely in the air away from people in a cry of outrage(cussing) .. is a different act all together ...than unsheathing a sword with the intent to deliberately desiring to stab someone with it to make them suffer(verbal abuse).And think about it an abuser does not need to say one cuss word to verbally abuse another person.

Verbal abuse is far more evil to human beings..than cuss words said out of frustration ,outrage or as descriptors of disgusting situations,abusive acts, anger at bullies or anger about a policy a politic a bad behavior or as a descriptor of ones raw emotions or pain..