I'm currently standing by a pole that has been defaced by "the f-word." People, I feel, are regularly justifying the use of this particular word, telling me that it isn't a big deal. It's added for emphasis in exchange to show anger, misery, happiness, excitement, etc. It's apparently quite multifaceted. To many it has lost that "profanity" standing by its excess. It seems to me that it has lost it's purpose completely for that shock factor it once had. If we were in outside of Seattle, maybe that would be different. But we are in Seattle.. and in SODO of all places. (the industrial district)
So why'd they write it on a pole. Why try to shock and alarm people that find it neither shocking nor alarming? While at some point it was a good punch in the gut, now I just think it's juvenile. I roll my eyes at the lack of a better word to describe the emotion and go slightly stoic.
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