 Who was stigmatized the most over swearing publicly?
Britain's great postwar drama critic was no fan of American football, but he was a fan of swearing. Thirty years earlier, almost to the week, Tynan was interviewed on BBC television in his capacity as literary director of Britain's National Theater and asked if he would allow the theater to present a play in which sex took place on stage. Within 24 hours, resolutions had been introduced in the House of Commons calling for his prosecution on charges of obscenity, for his removal as a theater official, and for censure of the network for allowing an obscene word to go out on the airwaves. Neither Greg Lloyd nor Michael Irvin was so stigmatized. Swearing isn't the only public act that Western civilization condones today but didn't 30 years ago.
 Kenneth Tynan
 Kenneth Tynan  Robert Graves  Michael Irvin  Greg Lloyd