Profanity In Films & Pandering to a Youthful & Black Audience

oldman said:
I watched an episode of "Ozzie & Harriet" on TV yesterday afternoon on RETRO-TV. I found it to be a huge difference from today's TV. I probably watched every episode of their's. Even the shows of "Father Knows Best", Leave It To Beaver", the "Dick Van Dyke Show", along with many others are actually refreshing to watch. No bad language and they speak about family things and what they did together. Overall, they are really corny to watch now, but back then, they were funny. It's like the world today has done a complete 180 from the 50's. How did we every get by without foul language and sex?
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I remember movies back then and the only swearing they did was hell and damn. I watched Jaws again recently and they did not swear and that was 1975. Sometimes swearing would have been appropriate in that film!!
 

Ameriscot said:
I remember movies back then and the only swearing they did was hell and damn. I watched Jaws again recently and they did not swear and that was 1975. Sometimes swearing would have been appropriate in that film!!
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Yeah, like when the shark laid on the front of the boat to get everything to slide towards him, I would have yelled, "Holy S__T".
 
oldman said:
Yeah, like when the shark laid on the front of the boat to get everything to slide towards him, I would have yelled, "Holy S__T".
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When the chief was tossing in the fish bait for the shark and he turned and saw the shark the first time, I think he started to say 'you come chuck this shit, but didn't completely say it'. And when he shot the shark at the end he said 'shoot you son of a ....'. Personally there would have been many, many F's in that situation.
 

And the ladies pranced around in dresses and high heels... always pretty and perky for their men.. Except Laura Petrie wore capri pants...skin tight pants... It was a good time for men... white men..
 
QuickSilver said:
And the ladies pranced around in dresses and high heels... always pretty and perky for their men.. Except Laura Petrie wore capri pants...skin tight pants... It was a good time for men... white men..
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Yup. Mrs. Cleaver in her pearls and high heels cleaning the house. Skinny Laura Petrie and her skin tights!
 
Only when I was in the Navy did I get around people who used profanity quite a bit. When I first went in, I heard words that I'd never heard before and that alone scared the crap out of me! I got use to it, but still.

My step-dad used certain profanity words quite a bit and it would really upset my step-mom, especially when he would talk that way in our vehicle right after church. I didn't use profanity at home, and none of the farm kids I grew up around used it. Some of my high school classmates used it, but they were the same students that would leave the school at lunch, go across the street to a 7-11 and smoke cigs and BS. They were my classmates, but weren't the group that I hung out with.

Since the Navy, I've just never chose to be around folks that used a lot, or any, profanity. Even the guys I done rodeo with used very little of if. Since we were all members of a major rodeo association, saying certain profanity words in public could get us in trouble with the association if someone turned us in.

And, the rock band I was involved with.........pretty "straight-laced". Nobody smoked, cheated on their girlfriends/wives, drank much or used really bad language. Just the way we were.
 
Seriously though.... they are ONLY words. and words only have power that we as a society assign to them.

I remember when I was about 8 or 9 years old, our neighbor's grandkids, who were my age, visited from England. When they found out that I could use the word "bloody" with no trepidation or ramifications, they would always want me to say it... and goaded me into it. So I obliged.. with every other word being "bloody"... until I got bored with being so entertaining and told them to take a bloody hike.
 
There's a funny cartoon being passed around the internet showing a young man visiting June Cleaver.

He was saying, "You look very nice Mrs. Cleaver, but that's not what I meant when I said I wanted to see the Beaver."
 
You are so right, QuickSilver. Here in Canada, with one third of our population having Francophone roots, there is a whole French culture of profanity, primarily based on the Catholic church. To a Québécois, the word for Tabernacle is an obscenity, in English, it is not.
 
This is true.... and so long as one is known for NOT usually using profanity... a well placed "F"BOMB will usually get their attention, and show them you mean business.
 
Thanks for the support, Annie. I think April might join our gang, waiting, waiting, in anticipation of her answer. We are the Leather Ladies, and this is how we roll! Stop laughing, this is serious! Perhaps Jim might like to be our honourary enforcer. HaHaHaHa. Don't need to wear leather Jim, but uniform is a must!
 
Shalimar said:
Thanks for the support, Annie. I think April might join our gang, waiting, waiting, in anticipation of her answer. We are the Leather Ladies, and this is how we roll! Stop laughing, this is serious! Perhaps Jim might like to be our honourary enforcer. HaHaHaHa. Don't need to wear leather Jim, but uniform is a must!
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Naw, I'll just watch the carnage from the outside.
 

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