Yesterday, I was amazed at the length that the news outlets have gone through to remove the work shitty.
I listened or tried to listen to the trial of the Goldman-Sachs execs by the congress, more specifically tried to listen to Levin repeat the words allegedly used by the execs in a memo which was just an annoying beep.
I could not figure out what they were getting at until I listened to CBC this morning and it wasn’t bleeped.
I realized that some in our society think God doesn’t think that some words exist so we must not hear them in public, on radio or on tv while other try to shield their children from bad mean words like shit and fuck and mother fucker and what ever but they hear it at school and among their friends. Maybe the learn them in some classes with teachers complaining about the budget cuts.
I see it extends to other things, cable shows for instance. South Park which is not a kids show (and it seems that anyone who thinks the show is for kids because it is animated should be locked up) does just that – let’s not offend anyone with those bad words even though it is 10 at night and we are a cable channel.
BBC America which I like to watch becomes really frustrating when they bleep everything being just mildly offensive. I thought the brits had the right idea, fuck the bleep. BUT they consider us vulgar so I can’t see the use of the bleep button by anyone who works for the BBC. I have a lot of unedited shows from across the pond, I seldom heard bleeping out shit or fuck if at all.
Canada, to may amazement also is like the brits, I sat watching a movie on Channel 9 Windsor Ontario (CBC) one night and was floored to hear all kinds of nasty words coming from some girls and then the nudity – oh my tits and ass.
So I wonder why are we so afraid of words?
I mean if people think that not bleeping them out would offend anyone, then it would mean that they offend at any and all things in life. We don’t live in the fairy tale disney world, but even then, disney wasn’t about the kids but the adults. His world was the same as anyone elses, and society has to expose things to change them, not hide them as people want to do. Maybe without the bleep, people will hear how stupid it sounds and it will change … but then again we are a bunch of prudes to begin with.
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