My Blog Rating

My bloggy friend over at Stress is the New Black rated her blog and posted about it. She was slightly annoyed that she got a squeaky-clean G rating. I TOTALLY understand her thinking. One likes to think that your life has enough excitement and edginess in it, that one would at least score a PG rating. Yes, I know my life is diametrically different than the life I lead for 6 years at the University of Florida, during undergrad and Law school, but that's as it should be. I'm 43 for God's sake, not 21. However, like Lori, I went to the site hoping for a racier rating.

Well, I got an R rating and was thrilled!!! Um, that is, until I read WHY I scored the R rating. According to the site, I received that rating b/c I used the following words, the following number of times:

pain (4x); shitty (3x); damn (1x)

That's it? That's all you have to do to get an R rating? Gee, I know that somewhere on my blog is the word "Fuck", but apparently that doesn't rate in the scoring. Now, when I was 16 and getting in trouble for saying that word, I would have agreed. My argument was that: why was one word singled out over others? Fuck is the same as Intercourse after all, the only difference is that one is of anglo-saxon origin and one of latin derivation. Kind of like dick vs. penis. One acceptable, and one not, yet both refer to the same thing. My parents never bought that argument, but apparently this annoying blog-test does.

So, I'm now going to post this post, go back and rate my blog again, and see if whether or not I'm now up to an X rating, given the four words I've just been discussing. I'll report back.

UPDATE: I'm still at an "R" rating. Now the reasons are as follows: Pain (5x); shitty (4x); damn (2x); and dick (1x). Again, "fuck" did not register. Interesting.

So theoretically, I guess I could post all day and night about having upside-down-monkey-sex with every Tom, Dick (oops) and Harry, and I'd score the same as my current celibate-toddler-mom life. That's just wrong!

UPDATE #2: Still an R rating, but now the F-word is registering. However, upside-down-monkey-sex does not register. Of course since the last update, I confess that its occured to me that perhaps the reason that I'm leading a celibate-toddler-mom life, is b/c I'm at home on a Friday night busy screwing around with rating my blog vs. being out and about attempting to "get busy" doing other things, but I choose not to dwell on that. I just don't have the energy!