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My brother isn't a big cussy person. Growing up, cussing was not done in my house. Of course, my father would say a few choice words when he got angry. I thought it was wrong and was scandalized when I heard words. Then when I was about 17, my best friend at the time said to me..
"You know that some guy somewhere just decided that these particular words are bad. They're not inherently worse than any other word." (Now we're not talking slurs. I'm talking your basic four-letter words here.) But her putting it that made me realize I was overreacting...
And basically I've been super-cussy ever since. I respect that some people don't use/enjoy those words, and I know there is a time and a place. But my brother will edit them out of songs. Especially the word "fuck." He'll mute it or replace the line...
So I was very disappointed today when listening to Alanis Morissette to find that he edited my song. Clearly he has never known what it is to be a woman wronged and sing along, "are you thinking of me when you fuck her?" But I couldn't. And that was the point of this thread.
