Yes, “Fuck” is the title as well as topic of this article by Prof. Christopher M. Fairman of Ohio State’s Moritz College of Law. I’m not too demure to blog it, unlike shrinking violets Brian Leiter and Michael Froomkin (or maybe they just want to avoid the porn spam that is sure to follow?). Via Feminist Law Prof. Susan Franck, who noted that she “read the introduction of the piece itself (not just the abstract) and it’s a really interesting one…. Particularly how the genesis of the piece got started (i.e. students being uncomfortable with courts writing graphically about women in sex discrimination cases).”
–Ann Bartow
Update: See also.
Whaddya know…you can find the darndest things in law schools…
It’s actually a pretty interesting article. I got in trouble for saying “fuck” at a faculty meeting once.
It’s a fascinating article and I’ll have to pass it along to folks at work (linguists) would would appreciate it. I got thoroughly sidetracked in the footnotes, though. I’m very subsceptible to extensive footnotes…
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