i’m going to be frank.
i hate cursing.
i’m going to be honest.
i’m not perfect, and i’ve certainly been tempted more than once to curse. i have cursed before, and i’m not proud of it in the slightest.
a big problem with cursing is the lack of weight placed on it these days.
people throw around the words like they’re nothing, blending them with their day-to-day speech like some kind of spice meant to make what they say more meaningful or pointed.
or maybe they just curse because their friends do.
or maybe they just curse because their parents tell them not to.
or maybe they just curse because they don’t see a reason not to.
i’m thoroughly convinced that cursing is motivated entirely by selfishness, a desire to “fit in,” immaturity, or blinding ignorance.
some people think that by cursing they are asserting their independence and maturity.
cursing is merely ascribing directly to what our culture says is “cool” and “accepted.” it’s the antithesis of independence. rather than asserting yourself as an individual, you are announcing your assimilation into the growing pool of easily-influenced humans.
cursing is crude. it is primitive. it is entirely unnecessary. people think that curses are needed to drive points home. they think that without obscenities their speech is weak, watered down, or uninfluential. this thinking is embarassingly simple-minded. curses are rarely used to drive a point home – what is, actually, more common, is that they are used to cover up gaping holes in logic or to distract from glaring errors. powerful points are made with a skilled command of rhetoric, not an extensive vocabulary of obscenities.
cursing is not only hypocritical and useless in the manner of rhetoric, but it is, in my own opinion, extremely unattractive.
this is mostly about girls.
the moment i hear a curse leave a girl’s mouth, they instantly look different in my mind. it’s a crude, unfeminine, unbearably ugly thing for a girl to do. i won’t deliberate, because my point here is simple. cursing repulses me, normally – but when coming out of a girl’s mouth, it disgusts me.
i’m not going to be self-righteous about this.
i’m not going to say that only stupid people curse.
i understand the allure.
i’ve cursed before, and had a habitual problem with it online some time ago that i had to fight to break .
through that entire time i understood what i’ve written above, and yet i still wrote what i wrote.
why? even now i couldn’t tell you. it’s terrifying, the senseless attraction.
every time i speak there’s a battle in my mind. i could slip ‘fuck’ here or ‘damn’ there. but there’s no reason to.
it’s rude, it’s crude, it’s stupid. it’s just plain juvenile.
i don’t need the help of these imbecilic words to make my points or style my rhetoric.
as an independent thinker i understand the uselessness of cursing, and am committed to resisting its temptations with all the will i can manage.
i challenge you to do the same. if you disagree with me, let me know. click the comments link at the top of this post, and i’ll be happy to hear your philosophy on the matter. you can remain anonymous if you wish – i would just love to hear some opposing arguments.
and if you can’t think of any? then why not join me in my stand of “cursing abstinence?” why not?
my challenge is on the table. should you decide to meet it, best of luck. should you reject it, i’d love to hear why.
