Thursday, February 1, 2007

the f-word

so in the corner store, yesterday, with a friend, i let slip the f-word and she was shocked.

"i don't agree with that word," she said. "it's so rude."

and i said sorry, i don't mean to make you uncomfortable.

"it doesn't make me uncomfortable, it makes me angry," she said.

for it to make you angry it has to unsettle you, i said.

"i just don't get it," she said. "i just don't get why people use it all the time. it does such negative things."

or maybe people just say it does negative things. maybe it does positive things, but since it's said to do negative things, the public buys into the negative reputation and subverts the positive reality. did you think of that? did you think of why you can't say it? i said. did you ever wonder what the first person to use it thought of it? and why they used it?

i said, i want to know when feminism became a dirty word. and i want to know when dirty became bad.

3 comments:

DJH said...

I don't think feminism is a dirty word.

Petra said...

but you're a mountainman. when was the last time you bathed? huh? your opinion is null here.

in other words: yay for not thinking feminism is a dirty word! but do you think it is a clean one? or are you ambivalent? enquiring minds!

DJH said...

"Feminism" connotes positive things to me.