If you wanted to change minds and win hearts about the issues that face women today, of course you’d take cute little girls who embody the sweet joy of innocence and have them shout F-bombs at the camera for three minutes. It’s a product of a company called FCKH8. YouTube took down the video, then realized that if there’s any sort of protected speech these days, it would be young children swearing for the proper causes.
Wouldn’t you know: Some people are offended. Yes, when the Right gets fussin’ about cussin’ it’s proof we’re (a) old-style moralists who probably blush when someone mentions a “chicken breast,” preferring the term “poultry bosom”; (b) hypocrites, because Dick Cheney used the word in a private conversation once, which is practically like putting it on a billboard over a highway; and (c) devious manipulators who understand that controlling language is the first step to controlling thought. If you frown on promiscuous deployment of the effenheimer, it’s because you want to marginalize the rage the word represents. Free speech! No limits! Say no to the fascist boot that would trod on our truth-telling tongues!
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