Cerebus Fangirl Blog

Wednesday, October 06, 2004

The swearing and the cussing.

Fuck.

Surprise how much I didn't even really notice it. I've watched all the episodes in season 1 about 5 times each, if not more. I kinda know the lines by heart. So when I found myself saying "Open up Georgia, it's Daisy. Daisy Adair." "Fuck Me." "I heard that. Open up." along with the show. . .

That is when I realized that the FCC is full of shit. Well, I actually knew it before then, that whole Janet Jackson nipple thing. Like seeing a bit of nipple is going to kill anyone. Like you could even really see anything unless you recorded it on your TiVo and went to slow-motion frame by frame capture it and then blew it up so you might see it.

So a cable show says Fuck I didn't realize it. Just part of life. The characters didn't say it every five minutes, or even every 10 minutes. But the uproar when someone (Hello Bono!) uses it on "regular" broadcast teevee. seesh. People, really, get a life. People are starving in this world. People are dying of genocide in this world. People are dying from preventable diseases in this world. And too many more horrors to speak of and people get their knockers in twist because someone says Fuck or they see a nipple on teevee.

I really hope these people don't watch cable. They might flip a lid. . .umm.