The New Most Vulgar 4-Letter Word
F**K has lost its power; Let's replace it with a truly obscene word: M**K
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Anne and I had a late breakfast (I don’t “do” brunch) with friends on Saturday. One of them said—as one does so often these days—“Fuck Trump!” Then she added, “But we need a stronger word than that.”
I had been thinking along those lines for quite a while. Fuck has become so commonly used that it has lost its power. Americans have adopted the vernacular of Ireland, where a complete sentence consists of a noun, a verb, and three forms of fuck). The “f-word” has come to be the equivalent of clearing one’s throat.
Then it struck me what the new, as Ralph said in A Christmas Story, “THE word, the big one, the queen-mother of dirty words” should be.
Let's make it "the ‘M-dash-dash-dash’ word!”
Here is what I propose as the dictionary definition:
Both “The Finger” and the Nazi “Seig Heil” salute are phallic. They reflect the belief that man is superior to woman. One man saying, “Fuck you!” to another really means I am the man and you are the woman. Insecure men like Musk and Trump think men are naturally superior to women. “Fuck you!” is the verbal equivalents of a male animal who has defeated another male mounting him as if the latter were a female, as in the below image of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep:
In our new terminology, the one on top is saying, “Musk you!” to the subordinated one.
I think getting large numbers of people to use musk in place of fuck could be powerful because it accurately captures what Elon Musk is doing to all of us. If it were to catch on, it would enrage him.
Let’s do it!
Let's all spread the WORD.