Simply Jonathan

Mother

In English, it’s quite popular to talk about another person’s mother. And there are especially two insults regarding mothers, that I want to talk about.

The first one is “son of a bitch”. This is used to insult not the mother, but the son, which doesn’t really make sense, given that the son is merely being mentioned, but not with offending terms. In my opinion, it’s like insulting one’s sister — okay, insult, but why not say something about me?

The other one is “motherfucker”. There is no doubt who this is directed at, but I’m questioning the insulting effect in this. Given that there seems to be a sort of achievement in doing another one’s mother, I don’t see how “motherfucker” can be insulting. Plus, all fathers in the world are per def motherfuckers?

This is Simply Jonathan, a blog written by Jonathan Holst. It's mostly about technical topics (and mainly the Web at that), but an occasional post on clothing, sports, and general personal life topics can be found.

Jonathan Holst is a programmer, language enthusiast, sports fan, and appreciator of good design, living in Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe. He is also someone pretentious enough to call himself the 'author' of a blog. And talk about himself in the third person.