How some American tech blogs make America looking f*%king stupid
Warning to people residing in America: this post contains swearing, or as some of you call it “cussing.” If you are easily offended, avert your eyes, or cover the screen with your bible. The headline is intentionally censored, the rest isn’t.
What is it with American’s and swearing? Here’s a country that produces most of the worlds porn, which creates the most violent and horrid cinema in the history of man kind, and yet a good portion of its residents carry on like school girls confronted by a flasher when someone says fuck. Even in the relatively hard world of tech, the same still applies. Normally reasonable people who likely swear themselves write bullshit tut-tut headlines over the use of the word, even when the context it was delivered was 1. humorous and 2. appropriate, for example Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz saying “fuck you” to Kara Swisher at the AllThingsD conference yesterday. The chances of Kara having taken offense: maybe 1 million to 1 and even the official AllThingsD live blog makes little mention of fuck you being said.
So why do we see shit like this (and this is only a small sample, take a look at the shot above as well):
Now I don’t know a lot about Carol Bartz, but I do know one thing: when she joined Yahoo, it was pretty much fucked. Whether it is still fucked today comes down to degrees, but you’d think that it might be a little less fucked than before. Bartz says it like it is, and if anything she’s actually being quite restrained, after all, most people trying to save Yahoo would be swearing a lot more than Bartz is.
But back to the main point: what’s the big deal here. Yahoo gets a competent CEO, and the best they can go her for is that she occasionally says fuck? Or is it because she is a woman, and only men can swear? Is there a sexist double standard coming from the white boys only club in Silicon Valley perhaps?
Most of all these reports make America look fucking stupid. American soldiers are raping prisoners in Iraq and the President won’t release the photos, but oh my fucking god, the CEO of Yahoo said fuck on stage. The people writing this tripe are usually reasonable people, but they need to stop embracing their 12 year old school girl side and grow the fuck up.
