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Originally Posted by RJ
But I think with this subject we've gone the opposite direction. I don't know it for a fact, but I'm going to hazard a guess that our laws concerning what is considered crude and vulgar behavior are probably considerable more tolerant today than they were a hundred years ago. You gotta think that a woman in a small Texas town in 1908 would have faced far greater wrath than a ticket for saying f*** while visiting the general store. She'd have most likely been run out of town.
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Excellent point. And God knows there is far too much vulgarity in public (yes, I know I cuss my ass off on this BB, but I'm in a comfort zone here, not wandering down the street past a bunch of nuns and little kids). Sounds like this woman was a real scumbag. She probably needed a good ass-kicking more than a ticket.
I've just seen so many personal liberties erode during my lifetime that I'm getting rather paranoid about it. And I do figure that the Saudi Ministry of Virtue probably started with a couple of guys sitting around saying "Damned infidels, there outta be a law!"