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Thursday, January 19, 2012

The Toddler Dropped the F Bomb

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I must getting old because when the two- year old girl supposedly dropped the F -bomb three or four times during the  ABC show “Modern Family, I didn't think much about it.  I imagine it happens, perhaps to a lesser degree, in all families.  It wasn't until I watched MSNBC’s “The Last Word” and hosted by Lawrence O'Donnell that I found out that it created quite a controversy.  Lawrence stated that the producer, purposely wrote those lines in the story line  to create controversy for ratings.  Lawrence said that the little girl actually said” fudge it” so ABC knew their boundaries all along.

I don't recall if that ever happened in our family even though my stepfather cussed a lot and my mother threw  one in every now and then ,when she was angry at my step father.  I didn’t use profanity in my teens but I picked it up when I joined the military. Profanity was a second language because it was used by the commanders and it flowed down to the enlisted ranks.  We didn't think much of it.  It wasn’t until I got out that people started noticing that every other word I used was laced with profanity. I started toning down and eventually won that battle.  It stuck because I don't hardly cuss at all these days but it's not because I'm a prude,(far from it) but it's because of my environment. Profanity doesn't bother me in the least bit because I hear a lot of it on TV show,movies etc. and I think it gives extra punch to the lines Jon Stewart and other comedians put out.  I also think if you didn’t use profanity in a war film, it would lose its credibility.

Steven Levitan, creator and producer of  the TV comedy had the little girl say “fudge” during the taping and bleeped it as she said it and had her mouth obscured by pixilation to make the viewers think that the little girl was actually using the F-bomb.It got the 35,000 member “No Cussing Club” stirred up but I'm surprised that we haven’t heard from the evangelicals yet.  Perhaps they they have their full focus on the 2012 election.

TV profanity has become an issue for the Supreme Court and a decision on what can and can't be said will be made in June.  We have to be the only industrial nation in the world who tries to be something we're not. We're not Puritans.

I remember several instances where teachers would threaten some students with a bar of soap to wash their fitly mouth because they said the word “damn.”Am I missing something? I don’t think it's appropriate to use the little girl as pawn for pushing the envelope and I think parents should correct their children for using profanity because there are better ways to get your point across.  That's a family decision but I'm interested in what you think. Is it a little bit to do about nothing, or is the entertainment media trying to change our culture?

 

12 comments:

Edith Ann said...

This show is hilariously funny and I don't think they needed to do this. But, as we get more and more immune to things that offend us (like we have with violence, etc.) we may notice it less and less.

Of course, the pre-show hype made many curious.

Mike said...

Excellent post..I completely agree

Rebecca said...

I choose not to give the word power. It's a word; a word that has been around for thousands of years. The meaning hasn't changed.

Research shows that saying a curse word actually relieves stress and reduces pain. Of course, you have to give the word power for those occasions.

I guess I can overlook cursing if someone has hurt themselves, but I don't like curse words in casual conversation.

I kinda look down on people who get all worked up over certain phonemes. ;)

Mike said...

I didn't know curse words relieve stress..I guess some of my ex coworkers are stress free..:-)

I agree about using unnecessary cuss words in a causal conversation.

It's out there,like any other daily lesson;nothing to see here folks..:-0

Legion said...

Gee Mike, if you would have made this post today, Sunday, it might have been more relevant.

This response by the poster of the v-town throw down leaves little to the imagination.

LOOK DUDE,IM NOT THROWING UP GANG SIGHNS N I JUST TURNED 18,I DONT DO ALL THAT N E MORE SO HOP OFF MY DI*K N QUIT JUDGING,AND ALL U HATEN OLD MOTHERFUKZ!STEPP OFF,IF YOU AINT PROUD OF BEING IN VICTORIA,GET THA F*CK OUT N DNT B TLKIN DOWN,I LOVE MY CITY N THE THINGZ I DO,F*CK YOU ALL,THANK YOU KAYLA BELL FOR POSTING THIS SO ALL CAN SEE!

There ya go,what a talented barely 18 year old high school sophomore thinks.

Rebecca said...

I saw that, Legion.

Legion said...

It's a sad example of the product of public education isn't it?

Legion said...

"I JUST TURNED 18,I DONT DO ALL THAT N E MORE SO HOP OFF MY DI*K "

What in the hell does this ADULT mean? Hop off his DI*K?

Is that a new term for "Dissin" him?

That has to be the stupidest thing ever. Or maybe he associates both pleasure and pain with obviously where his brain is at.

Mike said...

I didn't log into VA ,today,so I'll go over and see what you are talking about.

Mike said...

I read a few lines of that story this morning's paper and went to something else but I never thought it would be put on line..I can't believe how popular it was...Are people hurting for something to comment on? I know some posters think they have to post on every thread. I'm glad Rebecca made the comment she did....Our forum is taking a nose dive and they don't seem to care.

Edith Ann said...

As per the usual--the Advocate had great story potential, but lost it with too much info on the guy making the movies. A very brief mention that these fight are taped is all that was necessary.

I did do as VBB suggested, and I went to look at this losers Facebook page. He's a piece of work.

I do believe it is important for this community to be aware of this behavior. If we don't being it to light, we help no one. But I agree--Mr. Martinez was over-exposed in this article.

And if my son ever posted anything even close to what Martinez did on the Advocate, I'd beat the ever-living snot out of him for embarassing me in public!

Mike said...

EA
I gave it a couple minutes of my time and that was a couple minutes too much.

Where were the VA monitors?As Rebecca posted,this got way out of hand.

I don't think it had any potential at all(JMO) as a public awareness...Maybe.

This one slipped by me and I'm glad..:-)