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Comment by ratelimitsteve

11 hours ago

Joke's on you, as standards loosen now PG-13 movies get up to eleven "fuck"s to distribute throughout the film (nineteen for documentaries)

Today's 13 year olds say that word more times than that before breakfast.

  • Which is, of course, a bad thing that ought not to be encouraged and that ubiquity does, in fact, encourage and normalize.

    • >Which is, of course, a bad thing that ought not to be encouraged

      I'm not actually willing to take that as read. It's just the word "fuck". You may personally find it distasteful and you're welcome to discourage your children from using it but it seems like you're committing Pargin's Blunder here (mistaking norms specific to your social group for universal truths).