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A study published in 2000 found that British people consider it second only to "cunt" in severity (Hargrave, 2000). "Motherfucker" has taken on additional meanings through continued use. It comments has come to mean a formidable or inexorable force, as in the threat: comments "Payback is a bitch, but revenge is a motherfucker." It is also an expletive expression of disgust or contempt: "Now, ain't that a comments muthafucka!" "Motherfucker" also has come to be used in some circles as a general pronoun. The late Stand-up comedian Richard Pryor frequently used "motherfucker" as a term of endearment both on and off stage, and still used it in the positive sense to address his fans on his official website [1]. He stated in a January 2005 web post rebutting rumors of his losing his voice that "I'm still a talking motherfucker." The growing use of motherfucker in popular culture may mean the term through time has become less offensive to some, but some see its increasing ubiquity as a sign of the general coarsening of society.
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