Clarissa's Blog

I’m very annoyed by the sudden flooding of public spaces with swear words.

This is now in every bookstore, and I have to do weird acrobatic things to get my body between this kind of stuff and my child:

At a local coffee shop, at the ice cream store, at a small clothing boutique, there are items branded with a wide collection of swear words. The arts and crafts fair is the worst. “Mommy, I wanted to look at a dolly,” my kid says, “but she has a bad word written on her tummy. Can we leave?”

Nobody but an extremely infantile person can enjoy this kind of branding. This is very belated teenage rebellion that is embarrassing in adults. Yet we are all hostages to these unhealthy people of whom there’s suddenly a legion.