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Linguistic Re-appropriation: Taking Back A Sound

Created by B.N. on February 04, 2013

***The following contains words you may find offensive, but that is the point***

Society has long deemed certain words as offensive, obscene, and downright appalling. At the end of the day anything we say is just a sound and any power they have is given by us. This idea of words being "explicit" has caused unneeded censorship in all sorts of media (Movies, TV Shows, Video Games, etc.) and the "brain washing" of children that saying a certain word is bad.

For example: cat, penis, duck, dog. All fine, but why are certain words provocative just because they may have been used in a certain tone? Dick, cunt, nigger, fuck; Why are any swear words even bad things to say? Just simple sounds that we should strip the meaning of. Make them "normal" words. Help fix society by removing some hate.

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