I was struck recently about the delicate lines drawn around some taboo vocabulary in the media, in particular on television shows. On the series Charmed (on the WB network from 1998-2006, now endlessly in re-runs on TNT), displaced, non-literal uses of various words are fine: “pronominal” X’s ass: Get your ass over here! ‘Get over … Continue reading Untabooing, maintaining the taboo