BY THE WAY: THIS POST WAS JUST FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES, JUST TO PROVIDE AN AMUSING WAY TO INCORPORATE INFO, AND I GET THE POINT THAT I DON'T HAVE ANY NEW OR INTERESTING INFORMATION, AND IT IS NOT TO SAY THAT I DON'T STILL CURSE WHEN UPSET, NOR DO I MEAN THAT CURSE WORDS SHOULD BE BANNED. MAY DENOTE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS DO NOT MEAN THAT THEY ACTUALLY VIOLATE HUMAN RIGHTS, SO PLEASE DO NOT MISREAD AND RESULTANTLY INSULT ME.
A self-defense tip: If someone grabs your wrist, you can free yourself by turning your wrist the thumb-side towards and out the space between the fingers and thumb (the gap in the C). It works no matter how strong the other person's grip is.
Why cuss words may denote human rights violations
A tangential idea from
seikoshinmura's question about where the words Xylem and Phloem came from.
FUCK: Supposedly stale baloney that it used be an acronym for "Fornication Under Consent of King" which would violate freedom of fuck or freedom of choice, and then again, online sources say that "shit" stands for "
Ship High In Transit," which would be interesting if true. Supposedly, too, there is an obscure law in Hartford that it's illegal to kiss your wife on a Sunday, which is sort of funny and predates the Patriot Act.
SHIT: Etymologically, from "splitting" or "separation." If there are external reasons for the separation and causes conflict, it may constitute wrongs. 22 North Korean citizens were supposedly executed after being sent back to their country after found innocent of defection (not the excrement-defection, and an artist's excrement line speaks to the the arbitrary nature of such divisions, though her project's concept was not necessarily about divisions, although its biological gesture can be a sort of corellary towards Jared Diamond linking geography with civilizational development with in Guns, Germs and Steel). Shh-it sounds like a silencing term, which limits freedom of speech and also denigrates an individual's dignity to objectify them as "it" and label them. A funny sounding alternate would be the French term "boff" however backwards it sounds like "fob" which was a degrading term for immigrants and have immigration laws been improved since the stringency following INS's dissolution into Dept of Homeland Security? On the other hand, "shit" in French is "merde," which seems disrespectful to the word "mere (mother)."
ASSHOLE: I don't even need to begin about how it implicitly insults homosexual preferences, which would be like propaganda or advertising media that can idealize and villainize certain types of people. Korean American professor Elaine Kim has studied how Hollywood casts Asian roles (e.g. James Bond movie "Die Another Day" with the North Korean terrorist) in a negative light, and connotations of exotic eroticism added to Occidentalized beauty ideals in Asia perpetuating plastic surgery culture parallel the hyper-masculinity of the "Black Male Body" in stereotypes and popular culture resulting from the marginalized group's response. I am critical of statistics in my current work that maps out a prominent association between Sub-Saharan Africa and the AIDS epidemic, which could disallow my acquaintance with people I might visually label. Isn't that sort of how, in recent history, homosexual communities were labeled and ostracized under the banner of the same epidemic?
BASTARD: This is unfair because it insults a subject for factors they have no control over, such as being from an impoverished background. However, standards of poverty have changed since the increasing of living standards due to initiatives such as Millennium Development Goals. Poverty can be described as dignity related to research on feminist theory and sustainable development initiatives. On the other hand, "bast" is a fiber (helps "shit") obtained from phloem tissue!!, and since it also refers to the Egyptian god, you're insulting cats as in other religions. Random thought, I saw a woman who embodied the traditional Asian beauty ideal in old paintings.
CUNT: Speaking of cats (My virgin ears lost their innocence to the word "pussy" by a friend's vocab lesson at an art gallery at Chicago staring at a gigantic sculpture of clothespins called "The Big Pussy"), pointing out how this is unfair to women is like saying voting for Clinton was about female presidency. So suffice it to say, no need to insult Civilians Under Naval Training.
One possible solution:
Thought-bubble attachments for your head/hat so that you can literally wear your thoughts (like cartoon characters!). A low-tech version would be a whiteboard. A high-tech version could connect to your cell phone/digital accessories so that you can project emotes, images, and words from the bubble floating above your head.
In a situation where technology is criticized for limiting human contact, this idea utilizes the efficiency and effectiveness of visual communication towards encouraging personal interaction and helps connect with people in your immediate vicinity. For people who might feel shy or apprehensive about approaching someone or starting a conversation, it could start a nonverbal dialogue. For instance, while one might overlook a person sitting with a sort of ambivalent expression, but if they projected a ;__; face, one might be more inclined to reach out and respond.
I guess it is just a really dorky thought, although I notice so many people texting each other through interactive gadgets everywhere in Korea, and the cuteness of it would be appealing. I just don't know how to manufacture/implement my reserves of intellectual property. It's ok, I have tons of ideas so I guess if someone else decides to make it, it does good for others, and people probably don't respect me or my thoughts anyway with my damaged reputation, but such public perceptions shouldn't come between actual ideas applicable to helping society.
The problem with this idea is, just as conceptual art makes manual/visual craftsmanship that used to characterize artists feel obsolete, this sort of interaction may computerize empathic senses, body language, facial expressions, but at the same time, the point is to promote such interaction.
Speaking of occupations,
If your occupation was a painting, what would it look like?
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