I'm F....ing Tired of Profanity

I’m going off my usual track today to feature a podcast based on an article by Mark Edmundson in today’s New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/opinion/culture/curse-words-profanity-swearing.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare).I love movies and podcasts, but that pleasure is being diminished by proliferation of cursing. Can’t writers and podcasters describe something without using crass language? Or…perhaps they don’t have the vocabulary to actually describe a situation, so f…ing becomes the universal adjective. I’m not really a prude, but, honestly, I’m sick and tired of profanity laced scripts.Feel free to give me your thoughts in the comments. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chaoticconfluence.substack.com/subscribe