The F Word

 Thornfield Hall's Is the ‘F’ Word Necessary? A Look at HBO, D. H. Lawrence, Colette, Doris Lessing, and Erica Jong I think makes some good points about the F word (and also about HBO's The Last of Us; I found it reassuring to find another who was not enraptured with that show; only George Romero and Colson Whitehead have ever made me interested in zombies).

But maybe she does not cohere entirely. After reading her post, I was left wondering if it is a male thing, this overuse of the F word? Is it a guttural, brutal single syllable Anglo-Saxon word makes us more manly?

I sure it often enough in my everyday language, too much, when other guttural, brutal single syllable Anglo-Saxon words do not quite cover my annoyance, frustration, and /or anger with the surrounding world and its objects. I have used it in one story because it is based on an incident involving my mother's mother using that same colorful phrase, and in one play. Too much of it in prose seems to me to be like little boys enjoying the shocking of their elders.

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