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this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2025
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I've never saw someone triggered over cursing or not cursing or asterisk. Take for example a redact; a black bar over a nude person on TV. Sure you know what it's covering but it still adds some decency to the scene. Your imagination can fill in the blanks but you will never see what's under the bar directly. We'd be better off if we didn't curse honestly. It takes effort to restrain oneself, real power.
Does it really add decency??? One of my favourite shows, Arrested Development, uses bleeps over swear words as pure comedy; the black bars are similar to me, they draw attention to the oddity rather than just call it what it is.
Nudity in general is fuckin silly, people should know about their bodies, everyone knows what a naked human looks like from looking at themselves, censoring non-pornographic nudity is stupid and only serves to intrigue and create mystique where it should simply inform and demystify.
Yes, we have a lot of wonderful adjectives in English. Swear, and be profane, for fun and profit. If you don't want to use The Vulgar Tongue, then lean on the lexicon.
The black bar really adds no decency, it's performative and viewed by many as a form of hypocrisy.
Since this is a textual medium run with adult behavioural standards, the rule that infantilizes profanity with absurd fucking censorship is cringeworthy and likely to be mocked or pilloried.