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May. 23rd, 2020 11:36 amJust a little thing I was thinking about: ever notice how folks of the conservative persuasion tend to act like using profanity is the worst thing anyone can do? This piqued my interest in a video I saw where a girl call a white nationalist a "fucking idiot" and his response was "Your mother taught you that foul language??" as if THAT was more insulting than... I dunno, how about being a white nationalist? Today I was reading a list of underrated movies that someone had compelled, and not only did they express blatant trans/homophobia (saying that they didn't like a certain movie because homosexuality was treated as a good thing in it, and deliberately misgendering a trans filmmaker), but some of their other reasons for not liking some movies were "too much swearing." And that dude I mentioned in the post below was also like that- saying he didn't like a play he saw because "the swearing was gratuitous."
This all just reminds me of one of the most ridiculous comments I've ever seen on YouTube, which was so blatantly over the top that I found it hilarious and that I really wish I'd screenshotted because there's no way I'm going to find it again. It was on a video of Goat Rodeo (the acoustic supergroup that Chris Thile and Yo-Yo Ma play in, among others) performing their tune "Here and Heaven," which opened with the musicians tuning their instruments, and Chris whispered "fuck" because something was wrong with his strings or he'd played the wrong chord or something- I don't know, it wasn't really that important, what was important was the song. But anyway, some commenter went off on a diatribe about how they were going to play this for their students in class, but because of one hardly-noticeable F-bomb right at the very beginning this naturally meant the whole video was ruined because it was unsuitable for the ears of children. Then they complained about how the same went for several Punch Brothers songs, which were a result of Chris Thile being "obsessed with his own libido," and how immature Punch Brothers looked in their How to Grow a Band documentary because they said "fuck" a few too many times. And I was just like... "all this over a tiny whispered F-bomb??" Not trying to be too defensive of my favorite band here, but if you think Punch Brothers swear too much in that documentary, you obviously haven't heard any of my friends' conversations. And as for the songs that this commenter pointed out as being too sexy to play for their students- okay, I get it for "Magnet," which has lyrics such as "She locked the hallway door and said 'you're gonna take me now, you're gonna take me here, don't think about it,'" but that's really their only overtly sexual song and I honestly can't see any sexual innuendo in "This Girl" (which is about Chris being obsessed with "this girl" who later became his wife and asking God to "tell her it's Your will for us to be together-" if anything, it might be slightly blasphemous, but it reads as romantic interest to me, not specifically sexual) or in "Alex" (which I think is about a casual affair with a girl named Alex, though the lyrics are a little obscure- the closest it gets to any kind of sexual interest is saying "leave your boyfriend at home and the drinks are on me next week," which I guess implies cheating but like... it's certainly not as explicit as "you're gonna take me now, you're gonna take me here"). And anyway, WHO EVEN CARES? Especially why would kids care about this? They're not even going to understand any sexual references if there were any. And you're saying this is somehow ten times worse than the kind of music rock stars make all the time? (Led Zeppelin: "way down inside, honey you need it, I'm gonna give you every inch of my love," U2: "give me one more chance and I'm gonna make you sing, give me half a chance to ride on the waves that you bring," Peter Gabriel: "show me 'round your fruit cage, 'cause I will be your honey bee, open up your fruit cage, where the fruit is as sweet as can be" and SO MANY MORE.) The only reason Punch Brothers elicits that reaction is that they're not rockers, they're high caliber bluegrass musicians and apparently that makes them better than everyone else. I don't know.
This all just reminds me of one of the most ridiculous comments I've ever seen on YouTube, which was so blatantly over the top that I found it hilarious and that I really wish I'd screenshotted because there's no way I'm going to find it again. It was on a video of Goat Rodeo (the acoustic supergroup that Chris Thile and Yo-Yo Ma play in, among others) performing their tune "Here and Heaven," which opened with the musicians tuning their instruments, and Chris whispered "fuck" because something was wrong with his strings or he'd played the wrong chord or something- I don't know, it wasn't really that important, what was important was the song. But anyway, some commenter went off on a diatribe about how they were going to play this for their students in class, but because of one hardly-noticeable F-bomb right at the very beginning this naturally meant the whole video was ruined because it was unsuitable for the ears of children. Then they complained about how the same went for several Punch Brothers songs, which were a result of Chris Thile being "obsessed with his own libido," and how immature Punch Brothers looked in their How to Grow a Band documentary because they said "fuck" a few too many times. And I was just like... "all this over a tiny whispered F-bomb??" Not trying to be too defensive of my favorite band here, but if you think Punch Brothers swear too much in that documentary, you obviously haven't heard any of my friends' conversations. And as for the songs that this commenter pointed out as being too sexy to play for their students- okay, I get it for "Magnet," which has lyrics such as "She locked the hallway door and said 'you're gonna take me now, you're gonna take me here, don't think about it,'" but that's really their only overtly sexual song and I honestly can't see any sexual innuendo in "This Girl" (which is about Chris being obsessed with "this girl" who later became his wife and asking God to "tell her it's Your will for us to be together-" if anything, it might be slightly blasphemous, but it reads as romantic interest to me, not specifically sexual) or in "Alex" (which I think is about a casual affair with a girl named Alex, though the lyrics are a little obscure- the closest it gets to any kind of sexual interest is saying "leave your boyfriend at home and the drinks are on me next week," which I guess implies cheating but like... it's certainly not as explicit as "you're gonna take me now, you're gonna take me here"). And anyway, WHO EVEN CARES? Especially why would kids care about this? They're not even going to understand any sexual references if there were any. And you're saying this is somehow ten times worse than the kind of music rock stars make all the time? (Led Zeppelin: "way down inside, honey you need it, I'm gonna give you every inch of my love," U2: "give me one more chance and I'm gonna make you sing, give me half a chance to ride on the waves that you bring," Peter Gabriel: "show me 'round your fruit cage, 'cause I will be your honey bee, open up your fruit cage, where the fruit is as sweet as can be" and SO MANY MORE.) The only reason Punch Brothers elicits that reaction is that they're not rockers, they're high caliber bluegrass musicians and apparently that makes them better than everyone else. I don't know.
