The question posed on black board really made me think. It has to do with foul language in today's society. This question really hit home for me. I have been an avid Howard Stern fan since the mid 90's. In the mid 90's I was only 13 years old. I have been listening since and have grown accustomed to comedy in my everyday life. In 2006 Howard Stern left terrestrial radio for Sirius satellite radio. This is a pay service where the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has no power to regulate what the disc jockeys. say.
1-9-06 was the first day of broadcast on Sirius and I was listening. It took them all a while to get used to the freedom and now 3 years later, the show has a curse word, sexual content, and improper things happening all the time. As a man in my mid 20's, i'm almost ashamed to say I love it.
But reading the question posed to us on black board really made me think. Before that I never thought twice about the language and the way people acted toward women on the show. I never acted that way in my real life around women. Around my friends was a different story, the conversations on the show almost mirror the ones we have when we are just sitting around enjoying the day.
I never considered our way of speaking dirty. Not that it wasn't, it just never entered my mind. This was my Eureka moment, the fact that listening to this kind of language every morning since i've been an easily influence boy, till today has really molded my method of speech, verbal and non-verbal.
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