Why are today's protests in Iran accompanied by profanity?

The research and writing of this article is solely aimed at examining the social factors of today's Iranian society, and its publication is not proof of its performance. 

From the type of swearing in any language during protests, one can understand the situation of the people of a country or a region and what they want.

  In the current protests in Iran, in addition to slogans against the Islamic regime, vulgar and harsh words are heard from segments of society, which carry messages for the leaders of the Islamic regime.

For more than forty-three years, the people of Iran have been under oppression, tyranny, and government bullying, and this initiative and tool of cursing has angered the forces of repression.

Many sociologists and psychologists believe that swearing during protests is caused by the protesters' anger, because when the protestor has no way to express this anger, swearing is considered the most effective tool.

Unfortunately, the Velayat-e-Faqih regime in Iran has blocked all avenues of dialogue and expression for the opposition, and the atmosphere of suffocation in Iran does not allow people to make their voices heard.

A society that has been suppressed and ignored for more than four decades is now using its slogans to heap the most vile insults on the leader of the Islamic regime and his other accomplices.

The story began in Tehran and Sharif University, a university that has earned its reputation through winning medals in the Math and Physics Olympiads. 

But before Sharif University, the Iranian people's protests against the Islamic Republic's regime had been accompanied by harsh insults. Then came the time when Sharif University students, by creating the most vulgar slogans against the Islamic leader of Iran, reached the one million mark on Twitter with their hashtag.

On Sunday evening, October 10, the regime's security forces brutally attacked students at Sharif University, which was prompted by the students' harsh and vulgar slogans directed at the country's first person. This kind of harsh chanting of slogans against the Islamic Leader of Iran greatly angered the regime's supporters at the university. 

The truth is that this type of practice also has its opponents. Opponents who ignore the principle of the protests and, in a sense, are saviors who approach this issue from a moral and cultural perspective. 

Some sociologists and social experts say in this regard: In many cases, people tend to resort to moral considerations and language that is morally and culturally incorrect.

But when we examine the roots of swearing in the context of a political issue, we must see whether these types of vulgar and harsh slogans benefit the protestor's political goal, or do they bring harm and losses to him?

This type of harsh and vulgar political slogans can bring benefits to the protesters, including when they target the Iranian leader, because it symbolically greatly lowers the level of dishonor of the leader and his entourage, thus destroying the structure of the superficial sanctity that they have tried to elevate to higher levels over the years, making it impossible to raise it again.

Imagine a situation where a security force or a Basij member who has played a role in suppressing the people is criticized or advised by his family to stop cooperating with the regime to suppress the protesters. This could be an example of an attempt to undermine social support for the oppressors among their families. If we look at the issue from this angle and consider more examples, it can help us understand that the ultimate harm of this method (especially if it continues and expands) to cases other than the regime leaders is greater than its benefits for the protesters to achieve their goal.

Regarding today's Iranian society, it should be said: Protesters curse the rulers of Iran because they are fed up and their tolerance for this situation has reached its limit. They cannot live in society the way they want to, and with the regime's continued rule, they do not see a normal future for themselves, nor can they escape this situation. In return, they hear all kinds of disrespect, humiliation, sensual profanities, and the most irrational arguments about the world, life, and youth from the national and official media. 

If you live in such an inappropriate, hopeless, and broken society where you have no right to protest or speak, would you remain silent and speak in the language of the common people? The result of living in such a place can be an explosion of language that we call swearing. Swearing is actually a type of intense inner and emotional discharge that is expressed through verbal behavior and the use of words.

 The words of a curse are an internal explosion, and the emotion that is released is caused by the person's intense anger. The more intense the anger, the more intense and sharp the curse becomes. 

One of the harshest curses in our Iranian culture is the honorable curse. Honorable curses can inflict the most damage on the other person because they can hurt the other person with greater impact and with a specific purpose.

In our culture, which is considered a patriarchal culture, honorifics are a destructive element. On the other hand, honorifics usually involve quick references to sexual organs and the sexual act itself.

In the patriarchal culture of the Middle East, the subject of sexual intercourse is considered superior and possessive, and the object of sexual intercourse is considered subjugated and possessed. So when this sexual intercourse is performed by force, it means that the object is humiliated and degraded. 

The conclusion of this discussion is that sexual and honorific insults are actually an attempt to humiliate and discredit the other party, even though they were intended to be offensive. 

When a person or persons do not have other superior means, they resort to swearing and use this type of symbolic tool to show their anger and protest.

 So it is obvious that today's protesting people are forced to turn to this culturally undesirable means of expression to express their anger and dissatisfaction with the dictatorial regime.

That when he made people hate, not by force, but by cursing and swearing from the heart,