Sunday Bloody Sunday

Isn't it funny how you can get away with saying things in another language to make them less, I dunno, offensive?

Bloody, for example, translates into fucking. So the correct title of this entry would be Sunday Fucking Sunday. That doesn't sound as good and probably wouldn't have gotten as much time on the radio airwaves. Suddenly, though, you make it all English sounding and it's a number one hit!

I guess it wouldn't be such a big deal to say "fuck" now on the radio. Just ask a rapper. At the time, though, you had to hide references to drugs and curse words. It's part of this whole degenerative state of the world as we know it. Of course, the opposite can be true as well, I suppose. Uncle Buck is a PG movie and they say shit a couple of times. How'd that slip by the good ol' censors? Wonder if it was rated differently when it came out originally.

Another thing I'm noticing lately is the trend of making something cooler by giving it a foreign name. Yaoi for example basically means homosexual males. But somehow if you call yourself into Yaoi it sounds much cooler and is widely more accepted than if you just come out plainly and say you're gay. Bigots might disagree but when I'm looking for roleplay all I see are requests for males and females for Yaoi RP, it gets old. It's like giving something a Japanese name made it cooler and therefore, more desirable. Yaoi made gay a trend.

It's nice that being gay, les, whatever is pretty much accepted by the younger generation. With no bad stigma attached it means it won't be long before people of that persuasion are given right equal to hetero couples. I'm all for equality and progress. I'm just not sure how I feel about making lesbian and gay a trend by slapping a Japanese label on it. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe that's not one of the main reasons it's being accepted. Maybe tolerance is making a comeback.

I woke up late today, at 2:30. I went to bed at my usual 3am but that's still almost twelve hours later. I feel lazy and sluggish because of it. Patrick is vacuuming the house tonight, which is awesome! It needed it. We have to go grocery shopping in a little bit to pick up some odds and ends to get us by. Mundane crap.

I suppose I should probably be doing something productive.

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