How is it possible that in the English language two words, comprised of only six letters can have such a frightening, offensive, empowering impact to so many people?
Two of the most dangerous words in the English language are “Fuck It”. I recall an old time hustler from Brooklyn once telling me that if I ever came across a person who has just said “F It” run, because that is an ignorant person that has just let you know that they have stopped thinking. The language was of course a little more colorful, but you get the idea.
I have been guilty, far too many times to be proud, of saying “F IT”. Most of the times I fit into the old timers description of the ignoramus that needed to be avoided. “F IT” really was indicative of giving up, both reason and the capacity to think clearly and those combinations are a brewed cocktail in which trouble is not only likely it could be catastrophic.
Bad decisions led by “F IT” can be costly to your freedom and even your life. I know it sounds like hyperbole, but tell me that most bad decisions like getting in a car drunk are not usually proceeded by the words, verbalized or internalized, “F IT”. Every dumb decision that I ever made that cost me money, was proceeded by “F IT, I’ll give it a shot.” The words are just the exclamation to the admission that your thought process has ended. There are not many things scarier in life than someone who has voluntarily given up thinking rationally or reasonable. Our society is held in place by a fear of consequences. “F IT” is often a declaration that that fear and those consequences no longer matter.
I may not run when I hear someone saying “F IT” in certain contextual situations, but I back up very slowly, thankful for the warning I normally heed.
Two of the most offensive words in English are “Fuck It”. Offensive because Fuck is considered an obscene word referring to sexual intercourse as well and “F IT” as a vulgar alternative to expressing disdain.
As a child, “Fuck” was at the very top of words that triggered my mother’s neighborhood infamous backhand slap, followed by a literal washing out of my mouth with soap. Ivory was her brand of choice for the occasions. Most of us may not know why, but we learn quickly, usually as children, what are curse, obscene or vulgar language. In English “Fuck” has always been high on the list and adding “IT” usually does little to lesson the obscene nature.
In fact the F word’s primary purpose added to “IT” is to provide the clearest and most powerful verbalization of the intended disdain.
Two of the most powerful words in the English language are “Fuck It”. You can see that the words can have different intended meaning depending on the context. For many “F IT” represents an empowering mantra. It can be referenced to overcoming adversity or just an identification that obstacles can and will be overcome.
“F IT” can be a declaration of empowerment. Taking the obscene and vulgar and using it as an added point of emphasis that someone or something will not get you down or hold you back. Are there more articulate ways to get that point across, surely, but it is if nothing else a succinct way of providing emphasis to one’s resolve.
I have been told by many that learn English as a secondary language, that it is one of the hardest to learn and comprehend. “Fuck It” is just a prime example of the comprehension issue. You have an inherently, bad word, that depending on the context in which it is said can be not just vulgar, but indicative of potential danger that have little to do with its original obscene sexual connotation or alternatively a positive empowering declaration of potential perseverance.
Isn’t that The United States for you in a nutshell, a paradoxical contradiction wrapped in colorful semantics that needs to be judged in the context of its character not just in the superficiality of its words? At the end of the day, “F IT”… who knows or cares.
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