Oh No....More Swearing.

In Allan Ehrenhalt’s article “Maledictoratory”, He expresses how our society uses more swearing now than it did in past generations. Which I cannot help but to agree with. Swearing for most people has become part of his or her daily vocabulary. Without uses of certain words they may feel restricted of how they are suppose to act and what they are use to saying.

It is hard to avoid being around people who use profanity, because it seems as if they make a hobby of swearing. People seem to forget that not everyone wishes to hear how they want to express themselves. I am not saying that everyone who uses profanity is evil but other people may wish you would keep your “foul” language to yourself. Like last week on my way to class, some guys were using profanity and even though it was a conversation amongst themselves, I did not want to hear every bad word that came out of their mouths. Was I wrong for feeling this way? For the most part, I believe people swear in order to prove a point of; I am grown and if I chose to swear then it is my decision, so be it.

I once watched this movie on television where one of the actress made a comment about people who used profanity which I cannot help but to support her. She states “profanity is a sign of an ignorant mind trying to express itself"(Beauty Show), and I believe people who use profanity majority of the time does not see how it makes them look. In my opinion, if people took a good look at how foolish they look, than maybe they may stop swearing for good.

Without out further do, I am not saying that I have solved the problem of the use of profanity like Mussolini thought he had. In reality, it is up to the individual if they wish to cut back or even stop the use of profanity. Like Ehrenhalt states at the end of his article, “…God only knows” (par. 23).

Who has it easier? Women or Men?

In Scott Russell Sander essay, "The Men we Carry in Our Minds...and How they Differ from the Real Lives of Most Men." I ask you, Who has it easier? Men or Women? In the beginning of the essay Sander and one of his female friends are talking and she replies that, "men have it harder". True enough women are looked at as the primary caregiver in the family. Women are expected to do everything, work, have children, and take care of the home. Not realizing that in majority families the partner or older children can make it easier for the woman. Men always have to "live with their past" and carry it with them wherever they go. Men are often pressured to make something of themselves and if they don't then they are seen as a failure. "Like the menfolk, they fretted about money, they scrimped and made do. But, when the pay stopped coming in, they were not the ones who had failed". This is no way fair to men, especially thoughs men who don't get the opportunity to go to college and make their lives a little bit easier. Often men aren't big time lawyers or physicans but they are indeed hard working individuals who deserve to have a little ease in their lives. Women shouldn't not be the only ones that have it easy.