Million moms merely expressed the appropriate opinion that profanity is out of place in advertising. It has no authority to shut anyone down.
They have every right to try to shame BK into changing their behavior.... the rest of us have every right to comment on BK's far more serious offenses.
A head of lettuce will make several salads and doesn't cost as much as a fast-food prepared salad.
It does in terms of time... and time is money. Fast food is just that...
fast. It's not an issue of laziness; sometimes it's about maintaining productivity.
I agree. Profanity has no place amongst adults at ALL.
I would disagree -- there is a time and place when a "gosh darn it all to heck" simply isn't going to suffice... such as when one stubs their toe on a table leg.
Case in point: In 1992, Paul McCartney released a controversial song called "Big Boys Bickering":
LYRICS:
big boys bickering,
that's what they're doin' ev'ryday.
big boys bickering,
[F-bomb]in' it up for ev'ryone, ev'ryone.
guess while they're betting on the track,
they're tryin' to win your money back.
all of the taxes that you paid,
went to fund the masquerade.
He defended his use of profanity in an interview: "...I'm talking about, erm, the ozone layer and the big hole in it, fifty mile wide hole. I don't think well that's a flipping hole, I think that's a [F-Bomb]ing big hole!"
And Sir Paul isn't the first Beatle to go blue to make a point -- in 1972, John Lennon released "Woman is the [n-bomb] of the World,"
Lyrics
Woman is the [N-bomb] of the world
Yes she is, think about it
Woman is the [N-bomb] of the world
Think about it, do something about it
We make her paint her face and dance
If she won't be a slave, we say that she don't love us
If she's real, we say she's trying to be a man
While putting her down we pretend that she is above us
And interestingly enough, when I posted the famous "Frankly my Dear, I don't give a damn," scene from
Gone With the Wind, I was reminded of then the moral guardians of
that time were similarly outraged. Now of course, the studio censors (The Hays Code was in its infancy) were outraged at the script and made their own suggestions:
But that line (arguably one of the most famous in all cinema)
was in Margaret Mitchell's original book, so producer David O. Selznick and his editor Val Lewton fought back, and the original line stayed in.
Personally, I'm glad they did.
We call these words "F-
bombs" or "N-
bombs" for a reason -- sometimes you need the heavy artillery; put the pop guns away and drop the bomb.
It is very adolescent behavior and immediately diminishes the power of what one is saying, whether it is the President or anyone else. He only happened because Hillary was the opponent.
First of all, pointing the finger at Hillary and claiming "it's all
her fault!" is
pre-adolescent behavior... a little profanity might therefore be an improvement.
Second, even if I were to accept that rationalization (and I do not) for Donald's campaign behavior, he is now three years into his presidency, and has shown little to no improvement. And from the
very same moral guardians such as One Million Moms... I hear silence.
Why should they talk, when for a few shiny trinkets from Donald, they will happily look the other way? All his other followers do.
