Supreme Court: F-word and S-word

The Supreme Court recently ruled that the network stations are subject to FCC penalties for the use of "fleeting expletives," or isolated curse words, on their programs (namely, the f-word and s-word). In an Op-Ed piece published by the New York Times, Adam Freedman argues essentially the point I will make: that the Supreme Court is completely out of touch with contemporary language.

If the Supreme Court had ruled in favor of the FCC because it feared that not doing so would open a pandora's box of cursing on network television, I would have been fine with this. Although I think this is the real reason for its ruling, the Supreme Court, in its ruling, eloquently argued "that it was 'entirely rational' for the F.C.C. to conclude, as it did, that one particular curse 'invariably invokes a coarse sexual image.'" Nothing could be further from the truth. I may be alone, but if someone uses the f-word in a non-sexual context near me I usually just think that person is angry/frustrated/not thinking about sex at all. Obviously Justice Scalia who, little known fact, grew up under a rock, next to a monastery, during the Reformation, disagrees with me and conjurs up the most vulgar, society-shattering, disgusting sexual images when he hears the f-word. Sounds like just the type of moral-arbitrator this country needs.