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[QUOTE="Col. Bleep, post: 292506, member: 1023"]
Doctor Bobmbay has it right about ESPN and other media, too.
They are continuously playing to the lowest common denominator (and that's getting ever lower) in the effort to seem cool and supposedly appeal to younger male demos. Phil Mushnick has been writing about this for a long time in the NY Post.
 
It's also the medium someone uses.  The more impersonal and anonymous it is, the easier it is to be rude, crude and lewd.  And posting on the web is pretty impersonal.
 
But it's more than that.
 
Our society in general is in a sorry decline of acceptable standards in public speech and behavior.
It's a desensitization to what used to be called "common decency."
 
One example:  I was out walking the dog this weekend and someone pulls up to a nearby  light with the radio booming rap at top volume.
And it's blaring the  words "m-'er" and "s--t" as clearly and loudly as could be without any regard for anyone else.
Could have been anyone nearby...little kids, senior citizens, nuns...this driver couldn't care less.
It's really not that long ago that something like this would never happen...someone wouldn't do it.
In fact those words wouldn't be in the song.
Now it's common and no one seems to care.
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