Harriet Haller’s Records: For Madwomen Only


“Maya S. Trojan. My estrogen? Get it, get it? … Fuck you shut up then, I think your jokes are stupid too!”


I weave back and forth between silly goose and solarpunk socialist.


I’m just one big ball of fucked up and anxious and that’s OK.

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  • I’m an older person so I could be wrong, but it seems allusions to cussing is now more regularly accepted as long as it isn’t the cuss word itself.

    This is sort of how it used to be with “bullshit” and “BS”. The shortened term lets you know what they think without actually uttering the cuss word. Same with “Pissed off” becoming “PO’d” or “Put Out.” The abbreviation was viewed as more socially acceptable, at least when I was growing up.

    My go-to example for the modern era is from The Amazing World of Gumball, in which “what the what” is a common phrase used in the show and an obvious replacement for “what the fuck.”

    Thus I think @oxideseven@lemmy.ca has it right that younger people probably say “AF” a lot to get away with not actually saying the curse word itself.