Estase was watching Pop-Up Videos on VH1 when he heard something bleeped out of a video that he was surprised at. I've noticed that many networks (IFC) do not even bother to bleep out the sex verb beginning with "F" and ending with "K." Another network (Spike) thinks it is acceptable to use the misogynistic and obscene word "pussy" to describe weak men. So when a Gwen Stefani song where she self-deprecatingly refers to herself as a "whore" was edited so that word was no longer in the video, it made me really wonder. What exactly makes "whore" more obscene than "pussy?" The first word appears in the Bible, whereas the second most surely does not. It seems really nuts to censor a word meaning prostitute in a world that seems OK with prostitution (think academics who want to call them "sex workers").
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