Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months agoAre "God damn", "damn" and "hell" really considered curse words in America?message-squaremessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up164arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up163arrow-down1message-squareAre "God damn", "damn" and "hell" really considered curse words in America?Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square47fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 months agoIn the 90’s through the early 2000’s they were. It feels like today they’ve become common parlance. I know tv shows today can say shit, bastard, stuff like that without censorship I think?
minus-squareEmDash@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 months agoYeah Christians in the 1990s–and a bit after-- got pretty upset about “damn” and “hell”. Kids used to say “H E double hockey sticks”.
minus-squarebradorsomething@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoSouthpark broke things open here, on my recollection.
In the 90’s through the early 2000’s they were. It feels like today they’ve become common parlance. I know tv shows today can say shit, bastard, stuff like that without censorship I think?
Yeah Christians in the 1990s–and a bit after-- got pretty upset about “damn” and “hell”. Kids used to say “H E double hockey sticks”.
Southpark broke things open here, on my recollection.