Beauty

[Free2be]

It makes me laugh.  It's just lipstick.  The word has become mostly sexually meaningless in modern culture. From the complaints, I guess the meaning remains sexual to some but that is a choice.  People get stuck or zero in on a reason to be offended and I kind of understand that tendency because it helps to take the mind of the real serious issues.

[SurferWife]

My thought is profanity has become just another "acceptable" way to use the English language, which is sad.  It goes to show you how degenerate society has become.  There are plenty of adjectives in the English language to describe something, but those with a lack of capacity for our language resort to profanity because it's all they know.  Total lack of class. 

[blackhole99]

I don't  like to hear the F word used in every day conversation, but it's ok IMO to use it for effect, in private. It disturbs me when I hear it out in public, reminds me of how far our society has fallen.

[Ms tyrion2]

What can I say. It's a favorite word of mine. Very cathartic when I really need to blow off steam.  I respect myself. I'm not young.

I don't think use of this very old word is going to be the downfall of society. There are much more sinister things happening that worry me more than this.

The lipstick name garners attention and that's what it was meant to do

[Free2be]

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@SurferWife wrote:

My thought is profanity has become just another "acceptable" way to use the English language, which is sad.  It goes to show you how degenerate society has become.  There are plenty of adjectives in the English language to describe something, but those with a lack of capacity for our language resort to profanity because it's all they know.  Total lack of class. 

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Au contraire mon ami, I have a large vocabulary and I can also be quite profane when the moment requires but I concede that in public, among strangers, to let it fly is crass.  To say "it is all they know" is most likely erroneous.  The degeneration of our society is evident on so many other fronts, let me count the ways.  Profanity has been with us from the beginning of time, it can't possibly take the blame for what we've wrought this time around. 

IMO, high "class", the classiest of class, try a little harder to not think that other layers of humanity are beneath them, dregs of society, degenerates.  

Lots of people didn't get the education our system was supposed to have guaranteed.  Manners are not taught in every home.  We have some social work to do, we fell behind.

[scatcat]

Well his marketing strategy worked. 4 pages of comments

I’ve never read 4 pages of comments about Revlon’s Cherries in the Snow 

[beautybee]

Society has become crass, imo.  This is just small potatoes compared to all the other attention seekers who seem to have no filter. And I would never pay $50 for a lipstick and I'm sure Mr. Ford could not care less.

[RedRedHair]

@scatcat True; however, Revlon's Cherries in the Snow has been selling since the mid-50s. Wonder if it will be the same for this lipstick by Mr. Ford.

[ValuSkr]

I wouldn't buy it for myself.  Nor would I give it as a gift.

[RedRedHair]

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@Free2be wrote:

It makes me laugh.  It's just lipstick.  The word has become mostly sexually meaningless in modern culture. From the complaints, I guess the meaning remains sexual to some but that is a choice.  People get stuck or zero in on a reason to be offended and I kind of understand that tendency because it helps to take the mind of the real serious issues.

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It is a lipstick and that is why I posted about it in the beauty board.

During my working years I dealt with "real serious issues" at state, national, and international levels.  And I still keep current with today's events.