Jemima Aslana
New Member
I doubt the f-word on t-shirts is what teaches kids to say it. That habit comes from hearing adults they look up to using it - or older siblings, not a t-shirt. Kids are imitators, they imitate the behaviour of people they admire, so if they like a person with the f-word on their tee, they'd probably want the tee rather than start saying the word.
It's not that society has to tolerate more and more these days, it's that these days society as a whole is a lot less tolerant than it used to be.
I think back to my childhood and I remember tv programs about the human body, made for children, with nakedness and info that would never ever be allowed in children's programmes nowadays, and what do we get out of it? we get a current generation of children who have no clue about how the human body actually works and what 'to ****' really implicates, hence the ease with which they use the word.
I generally think we shelter children far more than is necessary. But that may just be me.
It's not that society has to tolerate more and more these days, it's that these days society as a whole is a lot less tolerant than it used to be.
I think back to my childhood and I remember tv programs about the human body, made for children, with nakedness and info that would never ever be allowed in children's programmes nowadays, and what do we get out of it? we get a current generation of children who have no clue about how the human body actually works and what 'to ****' really implicates, hence the ease with which they use the word.
I generally think we shelter children far more than is necessary. But that may just be me.