
When she's a lawyer, she'll DIE when this story comes up on Lexis-Nexis.
(Take all of this as humor and don't harass the girl. She already has problems considering she thinks the word "bastard" is one of the most objectionable words in the English language, right up there with "fuck.")
This smug 14-year-old from Manhattan (of all places!) created a fucking Web site to persuade kids to stop swearing called Bleep!.
"Swearing doesn't serve any purpose, and it reflects poorly on the person who does it."
How a nice Jewish girl from liberal NYC got so gung-ho about censorship (her site is all about choice, yet she writes almost regretfully "it's impossible to get the government to censor everything") is beyond me. And I don't know what asshole told her that swearing serves no purpose, but nothing could be further from the truth. Swearing helps to alleviate stress for one thing, and for another it's as expressive as any other category of words.
I think it's ridiculous when someone uses "fuckin'" every other word without a second thought, but swearing indiscriminately is no more meaningless than "Have a good one!" At its best, swearing can help describe feelings with damn near 100% accurate precision.
If you're arguing with someone and say, "Let's agree to disagree," that lets you know where you stand. So does, "Fuck you and the horse you rode in on."
If I had kids, I would not let them swear until they were old enough to have an intelligent, adult-ish conversation with me, and I would not tolerate disrespectful swearing. But give it up altogether? YOU GOTTA BE SHITTIN' ME. (In fact, I almost wonder if this is an Onion-esque story that fooled the news. I mean, the kid says it's okay to say Damn Yankees or Hell's Kitchen, but in front of children you should say Darn Yankees and Heck's Kitchen instead!)
After the jump, read her cringe-worthy list of dorky words she thinks should be used in place of profanity...and keep in mind she hopes to become a lawyer someday...