Thursday, June 22, 2006

WTF??

I just read a discussion about curse words. Someone went to see the movie "Cars" and in the previews, they said twice the word "damn", and now the world is going to end and her kids are going to hell, because they heard the word "damn". Twice. Oh, and hell is apparantly a curse word too.

My first idea was "excuse me? what's the problem?". My second idea was: Oh, now Disneyland will have to put up a sign in front of Mr Toad's wild ride, saying it's PG-13 rated, or even R-rated, because it takes you to hell and back. Not that I would care, because I don't like the ride, but that doesn't really matter here, does it?

One person's reaction was: on some of your pictures, your kids are carrying (toy) guns, and that's OK with you, but you don't like the word "damn"? It made me think: how do some people determine what is OK for their children and what isn't?
Apparantly, for that one person, it was OK her 11 yo was shooting cans with a gun, but hearing the words damn or hell was going to ruin his "innocence". I don't get that. But I also don't get what is wrong with those words. Maybe because where I live, people don't care too much about things like that. "Bad words" are never ever beeped out of some television program either. We also don't care if some nudity is seen. No, I don't talk about explicit sexual acts, but about the human body without clothes covering it up. The way we are born, you know... I think regarding that topic, it are more the "dirty little minds" of people that do harm than seeing it. Someone once told me: "Women's breasts are just like electric trains. They are made for children, but it are the grown men that play with it".

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