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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)
by ratelimitsteve 24d 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)
- SoftTalker 24d agoToday's 13 year olds say that word more times than that before breakfast.
- lo_zamoyski 24d agoWhich is, of course, a bad thing that ought not to be encouraged and that ubiquity does, in fact, encourage and normalize.
- ratelimitsteve 24d ago>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).
- rnd0 24d agoSo fucking what? Nothing wrong with that. Lighten up, francis.
- pessimizer 24d agoIf the word fuck isn't offensive, there's absolutely no reason to use it.
- defrost 24d agoYet every culture across the globe has and has always had swearing, profanity, taboo words, fart jokes, and gate keepers decrying such things. While the reasons may elude, the ubiquity speaks to something foundational.
- ratelimitsteve 20d agono one is challenging whether "fuck" is offensive, we're challenging what powers the mild abrasiveness of a single word actually gives people in controlling behavior.
- lazyasciiart 24d agoYea. Nobody needs to be talking that much before breakfast.
- HWR_14 24d agoPG-13 didn't exist in 1981. It went straight from PG to R. So less loosening of restrictions, and more adding gradation.
- brudgers 24d agoAnd in 1981 PG movies had tits.
- Jimmc414 24d agoAirplane (1980) was PG.
- Razengan 23d agoIt's bizarre because tits are the first thing everybody sees
- brudgers 23d agoAt the time, I was of an age and disposition to notice.
- ratelimitsteve 21d agothe second, surely...