Yes, in case you didn’t get the memo, the word ‘bitch’ will no longer incense the masses and fill them with righteous indignation.

I was watching the trailer for the upcoming movie Horrible Bosses – a green band trailer, mind you – and at one point, one of the characters exclaims, “Let’s kill this bitch!”

It’s not the first time I’ve noticed this tide change in decency standards, but it was the first time since I started writing for YOMYOMF that I remembered and I have to write about something today.

But yeah – interesting.  I remember growing up that my mother would ground me for saying “Rats!” as an interjection.

I had read it off a Peanuts comic and it got me a yelling.  So did “Good grief” and “What the-”, the latter being me intentionally leaving out the most heinous of words, “hell.” Despite such deliberation and careful treading, I was still reprimanded.

The yelling did a number on me for a while.

Then one day, I had an epiphany.  I was in seventh or eighth grade and I was standing at the basketball courts and I was struck with the sudden urge to curse.

I think the word was “shit.”  I said, “Shit.”  And nothing happened.

After all the parental priming had put the fear of God and Language in me, I had learned firsthand that nothing bad happens when you curse.

Of course, I kept this a secret from my family, but each day, I would allow myself a curse while by my lonesome, getting myself acclimated to this whole new linguistic world that had opened up to me.

Now, it’s pretty much the crutch upon which all my humor leans.

Which is good, because now we can say “Bitch” on TV.  And that business – I want to go to there.

But all this just make me wonder: what is the next big curse word that should break through into mainstream acceptance?  This is the part where I turn it over to you.