CompuServe Messages

Profanity and BBSs

    18-Sep-90 01:30:34
Fm: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
To: Betty Clay/SYSOP 76702,337
Betty, Exactly…should someone I care about call me the names that prisoners call me…I would feel different. But I wouldn't feel different because of the words themselves, it would be the anger or hurt … expressed by the use of those words, that would concern me. I would feel just as bad if they had said I had hurt them or caused them to get angry…without using profanity. "You know, you really are an ##$@%^$#!" "You know, you really are a jerk!" Both would effect me the same if from someone I cared about. The implication, not the cussing would bother me. I also realize that not everyone feels as I do. Don