mouths when they strike their thumb (accidentally) with a hammer. Fuck is a vehicle for our disappointment, when we see that our report card is not as good as we had hoped, or when our significant other is late for dinner, or leaves us all together. Fuck is an old friend, who can always make us laugh. "This girl's fit for a strait-jacket. I mean she's fucked three ways to the weekend. But you know what, Father? I dig it!"[1]
How many times did we double over in laughter as children when we heard Eddie Murphy call someone a motherfucker? If the undersigned is dating himself, then substitute Lenny Bruce, Dave Chappelle, or Carlos Mencia. The bottom line is, if you live in America and you haven't laughed at the word "fuck," you probably have no sense of humor – and you certainly are not in the mainstream.[2] It would be pretty fucked up if the most easily offended fringe of society dictated "morality" for the rest of us.
Fuck (if we accept the Examiner's initial determination) is an offensive and vulgar reference to the act of sex. However, it can also be a reference to playful sex, used by even the most proper women to describe their favorite pair of shoes as "fuck me boots" or "fuck me heels."[3] In fact, a Google search for these terms (with and without hyphens) reveals a staggering number of personal blogs, written by young women, who brag about their "fuck me shoes."[4] To these women, it appears that "fuck" is neither vulgar nor offensive, but empowering.
- ↑ Memorable Quotes from Wedding Crashers, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0396269/quotes.
- ↑ The website http://www.fuckfunny.com/ has a collection of "fuck jokes" that are so hackneyed that they aren't even funny anymore, but schoolchildren nation wide will laugh at them every year, thinking they were the first to hear them.
- ↑ See, e.g., Lynn Yaeger, Elements of Style Frill Seeking Garters, Thongs, and Other Hot Topics, Village Voice, February 10th, 2003 found at http://www.villagevoice.com/nyclife/0307,yaeger,41815,15.html ("With this saucy frock Krysi is wearing a pair of super-high-heeled open-toed $350 Agent Provocateur pumps that the store calls mini-peeps but that in the 1970s were know as Joan Crawford fuck-me pumps.").
- ↑ http://the-hwop.tripod.com/blog/ ("I like all the seasons, when they start. But I am definitely over summer now. And last year, winter was kind of a joke, and that pissed me off, even if it turned out to be a good thing that I could wear a skirt and a tank top (and my fuck-me shoes) on Christmas Day."); http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=46413915&blogID=153993224 "I finally
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