January 10, 2012
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Cursing on TV and Xanga
There are only two places you still can’t curse. One is on TV. The other is on xanga’s front page.
Pretty soon. It may just be xanga’s front page.
The Supreme Court is going to hear a case expressing the view that cursing should be allowed on TV.
The TV Networks argue that TV is held to a different standard than cable and the Internet. So they are the only place that is policed. Here is the link: Link
Should we be able to hear the words “F***” and “sh**” on TV?
Comments (78)
Fuckin right.
It’s time to throw the dog gone thing is the trash can.
I don’t see anything fucking wrong with swearing. Never have, never fucking will.
Only outside of the safe harbor
I would not care so long as the program had a rating. I like to know what I am about to watch.
@FuhkAwf - Your avie/screen-name combo is fantastic!
I don’t even want to hear the word “bitch” on tv. So, no, I’d rather not hear the other words. I’m really surprised with how tasteless most shows are these days, that those words aren’t allowed, yet. Just my opinion.
Why the fuck does Xanga censor all my fucks on their fucking homepage?
Personally, I dont want all of that on tv. I accept it in movies, but I think tv would go nuts using every curse word just to get people to watch.. and nothing but curse words just for the sake of using them would drive me nuts and annoy me so much.
It’s okay when the swearing is done sparingly, but when it’s excessive (like every other word) then it’s not cool and it sometimes turns me off.
If I may quote one Eric Theodore Cartman: “What’s the big fuckin’ deal, bitch? Fuck fuckety fuck fuck fuck.”
I don’t see why the shouldn’t allow swearing on certain programs and not on others. Makes sense to me.
I think on certain programs, sure.
i have the mouth of a goddamn sailor, but i’d rather TV was still censored with the cuss words.
They are just words. I don’t understand what the deal is about them.
not on prime time, but on shows that are clearly rated tv-MA and playing at 11:00 at night it should be allowed, that’s just poor parenting if kids are watching them.
No words are “just words.” I think TV is crude enough as it is. Why do we have to pollute everything? If cussing is okay, is nudity? What isn’t okay? Sometimes, just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should.
Fuck yes. Motherfucking yes.
I don’t get what the big deal is…….someone said on the Post’s page that free speech is the unrestricted exchange of ideas, and he’s right. However, if those ideas include curse words, what are you doing when you bleep them out? You’re censoring a part of them, which makes the thought incomplete. So, honestly, I don’t care if people curse on TV. I don’t think it should be bleeped and if you’re that offended, turn the station.
There are already enough shows that I can’t watch with my family in the room (due to a bit of violence or just because I don’t think they’re age appropriate, I don’t watch shows that include a lot of sex scenes). I would prefer not to add to that by letting all hell break loose verbally and allowing tasteless speech.
@raspberryjade - 2 questions
1. How is it bad parenting if your kid is watching a profane show? and
2. What exactly makes those words so bad?
At OP
I’m against all types of censoring. I don’t think sex, nudity or language or violence should be censored and it’ll be taking a big step, in my opinion, to lift the verbal ban.
Ok… erm… not to be weird, but for a while I lived in a place where cussing was totally allowed and appropriate on TV… However, I WILL say that a lot of the harder cussing took place after 8pm.
Which, I think is probably a better way to do it if it’s gonna happen…
I don’t know where everyone lives >_> but in cali, there are plenty of shows that contain hell, damn, bitch, ass, and the M rating usually has some nudity.
I guess I don’t really have an opinion, lol.
sensitive
So many times…swearing is just “fill words”. In very, very selective cases..it might be the perfect word to say..but rarely. I think it’s best to leave them off TV, Let people use real words. Strive to say something usually more clear and meaningful instead . Perfect!:)
For come particular programs, yes. We have to know there underaged kids watching tv too (: (:
I curse a lot, but I cringe every time I do. I don’t like doing it and I don’t like hearing others do it.
@dream_guru5 - when my sister was in 2nd grade there would be kids who were talking about family guy and she asked what it was and if she could watch it… that show is on prime time hours (when parents should be monitoring what their children watch) and late at night (when parents should make sure their children are in bed)
I’m obviously not saying every single case of a child watching an inappropriate show is bad parenting but more times than not its parents not caring enough to look into what their child is watching
and I don’t know what exactly makes those words bad, I’m not saying they’re evil I just don’t think the word of the day on sesame street should be “cunt”
only on late night tv (live tv can be quite hard to try and avoid the f and s word)
No. I have no problem with cursing but I firmly believe in there being appropriate places. Television is not one. I also can’t understand why people need to try and allow everything everywhere. Next thing you know there’ll be porn on kid’s shows.
@whyzat - absolutely agree. wish I could rec this x100.
@Megabyyte - Welp. Write the FCC then, maybe they’ll listen.
No, we shouldn’t. It stupid and nasty.
Even though censorship really is pointless, I think it would be better just to keep the censors. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind swearing. I do it everyday as part of a balanced verbal diet. I just think that, for example, if someone’s trying to make a joke involving swears, the censorship beeps make it funnier. But that’s just me.
TV is trying to promote how we should live. A world pure of heart and of mind. Then, it turns around and gives us series based on homosexuality, murder and rape. Indeed. TV is a great educational tool.
I just think it is weird the Shit is one of the “bad” words. I mean really Shit? My grandmother says shit
Why not just have a cut-off? In England, “bad language”, nudity and extreme violence IS allowed, but only after the “watershed”, which is 9pm. People know that after 9pm, bad language is perfectly acceptable on television. That works fine – people who don’t want to hear it know how to avoid it, and it’s at a time when young children are in bed anyway. Best of both worlds, in my opinion.
Don’t really care either way. You can see cigarette adds, with violent scenes to scare smokers into quitting, on at times when you are having dinner or there are kids around so why not drop a few F&C-BOMBS in there too?!?
Umm. I already here them.. ever seen “Spartacus?” on Starz?
Those words already are on many tv programs. FX shows have them. It is only NBC,FOX, CBS, and ABC where you really do not hear those words. I would rather they keep those channels somewhat clean while kids are watching. But I think it is ludicrous that little blurts can get them fined. We are a supposedly a free country. Part of freedom is allowing people and business entities to choose to do the decent thing.
No. That’s why there is HBO!
@smile4leena - ahhh I LOVE that show. But STARZ is like an added channel, right? Kind of like HBO? I don’t think that counts.
@karen_lynn - I couldn’t have said it better myself!
It depends on the show. Like South Park. They swear alot… But I think usually its censored and shouldnt be anyways since it’s on at 10.. Kids shouldnt be up that late anyways. I’d rather watch someone swear than nudity.
Sure, but I would quit watching the shows that do because I don’t want to expose my 7 year old to that.
freedom of speech? I guess that is right. I remember when a talk show host in late night said,”water room” and they censored that and the host quit but later they hired him back.
“Any damn idiot can cuss…”
No.
I don’t want to have to change the channel with kids around.
I’ve never been convinced that a threat exists when someone hears the “F” word on TV. It’s nothing I’d like to hear every other word, but I don’t see the point in censoring it out completely…
I really hope not. I’d hate to have to not watch tv any more
Cursing relieves some people’s frustrations and tensions. I use “fuck” and its derivatives to make a point, every so often. As for “entertainment” or cultural value, profanity offers little and just shows the casual user to be either lazy or unimaginative in his/her choice of words.
Nudity? History has shown that it eventually ends up with some men and women wanting to show their genitalia- not the most aesthetic part of the human anatomy. What’s wrong with leaving some things to the imagination, as Steven Tyler said yesterday.
@Paul_Partisan - FX is a cable channel. The article is about the network channels, in your words “…NBC,FOX, CBS, and ABC”. That’s the whole point of the story, networks trying to level the playing field with cable and Internet platforms. Do you not understand the difference, or did you purposely make a senseless post? You know, to STIR THE POT. [!]
Cursing is allowed on German tv. It doesn’t happen too often though. Mostly it’s done by American stars who have fun saying fuck etc. on tv. lol
The frequent use of curse words is a rather crude expression of one’s laziness or lack of desire to find appropriate words. What has happened to the country’s sense or propriety/civility that this has become acceptable? Xanga’s front page contains a lot that should not routinely be emphasized (that’s why I usually bypass the front page) – hurray that cursing is kept off the front page!
I agree with Cestovatelka, as long as its not every other word I’d be okay with it.
I prefer no swearing on tv. No need.
As long as the swearing is tastefully done..I don’t mind the occasional FUCK or SHIT. :] Unless, what I am watching the character just uses the words all the time, due to his character..& I chose to watch the show..I don’t mind. Hopefully, if they choose to allow it on TV they’ll use it sparingly..but I have to admit it gets annoying when they substitute swears for other words like ‘cucumber’ or other odd words in my movies on TV.
I tend to turn off tv shows where every other word is f–k this and f–k that. It is boring to me. I live at the end of the earth in red neck, beer drinking, beer belly, loggingville, where every other word would make Larry the cable guy blush.
Freedom of speech, man. You should be able to say whatever you want. If people don’t want their kids to hear things like that, they’re capable of monitoring what they watch (or heaven forbid, you could not own a TV!)
Technically, I believe you can’t currently curse on the radio, either.
I am of two minds about the issue. On the one hand, they are only words, but on the other hand, those words do have power, and if I was a mother I wouldn’t be comfortable with my child hearing such things. I think there is a line that shouldn’t be crossed, namely children’s programming. I don’t think it’s okay to have characters cursing on Sesame Street, and I think that parents should monitor their child’s television usage so that they’re not accidentally stumbling across Law & Order reruns with prostitutes and rape cases. If a program is attempting to be family-friendly, then it’s reasonable to leave such language out of it. But if it’s something that talks about a mature subject matter, or if it’s the 11 o’clock news, there’s really no reason for censorship.
I don’t have a problem with people cursing in general. But I think sometimes people throw in a “fuck” because they can’t think of anything more creative or intelligent to say. And if someone uses an excessive amount of curse words, I tend to think of them as less intelligent, regardless of any other evidence.
We should be able to hear them unless deaf. But i dislike swear words. I find them disrespectful especially when they are used casually without any passion therefore meaningless. Though since i swear alone everyday i live a contradiction.
No. I have an extreme dislike for those words.
They talk about using those words, on TV. They allude to them, but they can’t actually say them.
In Canada, you can hear swearing on TV. So ha ha ha on you!
It should be allowed on cable.
@leaflesstree - Amen.
No the words Fuck and Shit shouldn’t be allowed on tv, however we should be able to hear the word “Fuckshit”.
@Garistotle - The fuck is “Canada”? oh you mean America’s hat?
@Kevin_is_a_pirate - Nope. America is Canada’s pants.
@Garistotle - I’ve got one thing to say to you, Go Bruins.
@Kevin_is_a_pirate - Go team that’s 70% Canadian!
@Garistotle - THEY ‘MERICAN, also Chara is like 90 percent of our team and he’s not canadian.
I have a strong suspicion it won’t change much. I doubt networks will want to irritate fans by adding curse words to children’s or daytime programming, so it will probably just be that shows which already have censored cursing will uncensor it. Kids whose parents care aren’t watching those shows anyway, and if a grown adult isn’t offended by the content of those shows or the beeps covering obvious curse words, but they are offended by actually hearing a curse word, they’re idiots
I hate it when TV censors swearing! As for young children, I believe that people should not swear around young children, but for TV? No way! If you do not like swearing, please watch something else.
cursing is very acceptable on UK tv. i’ve seen and heard it on various UK tv shows. quite a few of them. to think they are very uptight and formal and proper on everything. guess i was wrong.
I think we should be able to curse wherever we please. Kids will learn to do it despite how we try and stifle it anyway. It’s a strong expression of emotions.
it’s not profanity if you hear it everywhere.
Fuck censorship!