Cenk Uygur
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Health Benefits To Using Profanity?? F*@# Yeah!
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August 6, 2016
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7:47Now PlayingProfanity gets a bad rap. Is it possible it’s just misunderstood? Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, and Kenny Hamilton, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"Michael Adams, author of In Praise of Profanity (Oxford University Press), argues that I shouldn’t care. Further, Adams suggests that maybe I should be pleased my son derives such enjoyment from hearing my wife swear like a sailor and/or like John Oliver.
Profanity, he argues, has many useful social functions including “bring[ing] us together.” There’s an intimacy to cursing, precisely because you know that you’re not supposed to do it. My son understands that by swearing in front of him, his mom is reaffirming her trust in him; this is something that can be shared between the two of them, but isn’t to be repeated in school (please god.)
“Bad words,” Adams writes, “are unexpectedly useful in fostering human relations because they carry risk….We like to get away with things and sometimes we do so with like-minded people.””*
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