Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

Which one is that

As for swearing, no one knows where the word "***" even comes from, although there is speculation of its origins. And even then, the origin is so dated and underwhelming, it makes you wonder why that word is so sinister to begin with.

Well, it boils down to the puritanical way we raise children over here. We spend the first 6 months or so breastfeeding children, then immediately shun them away from it, as if they suddenly become perverse. As if their function hasn't remained the same since using them the first time.

As for swearing, no one knows where the word "***" even comes from, although there is speculation of its origins. And even then, the origin is so dated and underwhelming, it makes you wonder why that word is so sinister to begin with.

To me, there should be swear words, but I think "***" shouldn't be one of them. Neither should "***". I think the ones that should really be swear words are the ones whose sole job is to demean or demoralize another person by representing years of hate and derision. The "N" word is one. The "F" word is another (y'know, the one that means "cigarette" in England). Those words are horrid and should be stricken from the language. But "***"? Who the hell is that hurting?

Oh, not pedophilia when they're the same age

I had to have a permission slip to watch a movie or two in my sex ed class, hell, I even had to get permission to TAKE the class itself, even though it was mandatory to graduate! Seriously?

I had to get a permission slip signed to watch a genocide movie in my Geography class my senior year, my senior year... And I think I had to get a few extra permission slips signed throughout high school on a few things.

Oh, not pedophilia when they're the same age

"Fornication Under Consent of the King" was ruled out years ago, if that's what you were thinking.

Juliet = 14
Romeo = 19

Accept they aren't Romeo is shown at a young man around 18 years old while Juliet is only 13.

Sure is was acceptable back when Shakespeare wrote it but when you start remaking it into horrible movies and forcing young people to watch Decaprio prancing around with guns. That ***is wrong.

But Mag! It can be used as so many parts of speech... it's... it's an abomination!

Though our language does love to lower words with Germanic origins (assuming it at least came in some part from Germanic). Now if there was a Latin equivalent of "***," that'd have class!

If that's not pedophilia, then I don't know what is.

Not like marrying and having children at that age was normal back then anyway. Pretty sure most people got married around 18-25, even nobility and royalty married around that age.

Not like marrying and having children at that age was normal back then anyway. Pretty sure most people got married around 18-25, even nobility and royalty married around that age.

Didn't the Romans and Greeks do that too? lol

Actually, women back then were married off around 12, 13 or 14 years old to men twice their ages and started having kids as soon as they were married. If a women was still unmarried by 18 to 20 years old, they were considered an "Old Maid" or a "Spinster."

That was usually arranged by their parents, sometimes to further their agendas.

Actually, women back then were married off around 12, 13 or 14 years old to men twice their ages and started having kids as soon as they were married. If a women was still unmarried by 18 to 20 years old, they were considered an "Old Maid" or a "Spinster."

In Yorkshire in the 14th and 15th centuries, the age range for most brides was between 18 and 22 years and the age of the grooms was similar; rural Yorkshire women tended to marry in their late teens to early twenties while their urban counterparts married in their early to middle twenties. In the 15th century, the average Italian bride was 18 and married a groom 10–12 years her senior. An unmarried Tuscan woman 21 years of age would be seen as past marriageable age, the benchmark for which was 19 years, and easily 97 percent of Florentine women were married by the age of 25 years while 21 years was the typical age of a contemporary English bride.

That was usually arranged by their parents, sometimes to further their agendas.

Indeed, Medieval England saw marriage age as variable depending on economic circumstances, with couples delaying marriage until the early twenties when times were bad and the average age falling to the late teens after the Black Death, when there were labor shortages; by appearances, marriage of adolescents was not the norm in England. The sudden loss of people from the plague resulted in a glut of lucrative jobs for many people and more people could afford to marry young, lowering the age at marriage to the late teens and thus increasing fertility.

From 1619 to 1660 in the archdiocese of Canterbury, England, the median age of the brides was 22 years and nine months while the median age for the grooms was 25 years and six months, with average ages of 24 years for the brides and nearly 28 years for the grooms, with the most common ages at marriage being 22 years for women and 24 years for men; interestingly, the Church dictated that the age when one could marry without the consent of one’s parents was 21 years. A large majority of English brides in this time were at least 19 years of age when they married, and only one bride in a thousand was thirteen years of age or younger.

Hey, that's seen in Romeo & Juliet, too! Enter: Paris.