Our best behavior doesn't always come naturally to us so we have imposed restrictions. Dirty words in a movie make everyone in the audience less civil by reducing them to what they're forced to think by what they hear together. I saw Erin Brockovich . Now, Julia Roberts uses the F word, too, but I thought it was artistically justified. It contributed to the plot and helped make her the character that Erin Brockovich was supposed to be.
Football is rough game with a penalty for unnecessary roughness.
There ought to be a penalty for a movie or television show that's unnecessarily dirty. Privacy Statement Andy Rooney offers his opinion on the F word.