The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #167954 Message #4056739
Posted By: GUEST,akenaton
02-Jun-20 - 01:57 PM
Thread Name: Foul-mouthed Folkies
Subject: RE: Foul-mouthed Folkies
Yes Starship, but most words have a specific meaning especially when applied to material things, or actions. There are a whole list of words which have had their meaning changed to serve a political purpose over the last twenty years. My point regarding music, poetry and the performing arts is that specific words describing femininity, the sexual act, and people who through no fault of their own find themselves fatherless, are being used by performers either to create a shock effect or as terms of vicious abuse. Using these words in such a manner is insulting in the extreme.