Women Who Use the "F" Word.

I find the premise pretty silly.

This isn't where I go first myself. But women have faced bizarre pressures in a society that tells them constantly how oppressed they are from birth and how badly they should feel about having and acting upon natural urges and motivations. As stand-up comics dating well before Homer have expressed: "Women and men be different!"

I think some of this has spilled over into language, producing such things as casual use of select bits of profanity.

My own biggest failing might be non-verbal: a tendency to chuckle or even laugh in ways that can be misinterpreted as amusement or even disdain... when I actually intend nothing of the sort. I think that could be one of the conversation cues most cuttingly misinterpreted by the fairer sex.
 

I have an 86 year old neighbor lady that swears like a truck driver (sorry to those who are/was a truck driver...it's just a metaphor). I cringe when she gets on a subject she's "passionate" about and the 4-letter words (including the F-word) come spewing out. Do I say anything to her? No way!
 
There is a cadence to proper cursing, done correctly swear words strung together can be a thing of beauty. However, randomly placed curse words just fill up the air with noise pollution and an interjection of Fbombs in the wrong place leads to the reinforcement of the speaker as either a novice or an ignoramus

Back to the original question, yes Fbombs coming from the mouths of women can sound trashy and uncouth. I'm not saying that women shouldn't say curse words they have their place, and one needs to learn the proper time to add an interjection such as an Fbomb.

I was a non-traditional college student, one day early in the semester I was sitting outside enjoying the sunshine listening to two freshmen girls enjoying their newfound freedom to curse. Their cadence was all wrong and the words sounded very random and weren't conveying the effect they desired, it did sound trashy and amateurish.
 
In 1964, I began a new job at a refinery office. My desk was opposite the women's restroom, separated by a long roll of filing cabinets. The women in the office (sorry, all clerks and secretaries) were - to me eye - all prim and proper in their tasteful clothes and formal mannerisms.

Well, it didn't take long before I started hearing strings of juicy 4 letter words, and realized they were heard when the restroom door was opened, and of course were all said by women. I laugh at it now, but back then I was a bit shocked.
 
I don’t get it, why not say go intercourse yourself or intercourse you, let’s go get intercourse-up?
of course that’s silly, but so is F-Y. or I want to F-Y that’s crude.
 
When anyone complains about women swearing obscenities, I think, "oh, you met my ex- sister-in-law?"
The "F" word is a great way to add oomph to a sentence, but that only works once. It's a cue to say "what I'm saying has weight". Of course, if you're in a foxhole, getting shot at, the word is perfectly normal. But repeated use is rather lame. That indicates the sayer feels that what he says won't be listened to, or be disregarded. Whether a male, or a female, overuses the word indicates a real lack of self esteem.
 
I like comedy movies so one night I saw The Heat advertised with Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock and thought I'd watch it. HOLY COW!!! I had never watched anything with MM in it before (and won't ever again!) so I was stunned that every other word out of her ugly mouth was the F-word. It didn't take me long to get rid of that movie and find something else. Why do they think it's necessary to use such foul language? Is that the norm now for movie goers??
 
Nathan said:
Pretty much all music & entertainment has gone the "F" route. "They say art imitates life", I say yes, and "life imitates art" as well.
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I agree. Where I live, using the /f/ word conversationally is a cultural thing. And so are tattoos.

Gang culture and the drug culture are the main ones here. They all have their own tats, their own language, and their own laws. People in the drug culture rely on the existence of gangs, so they're subservient to them, and they have to abide by the rules of the gang that supplies their drugs. If gang member Blue-Boy didn't show up with druggie Cruzer's fix, Cruzer can't say "Effin' Blue-Boy effed-up" ...not out loud, anyway, or one of Blue-Boys enforcers will put the hurt on 'im.

They have rules of etiquette, propriety, and decorum about using the /f/ word.

It's pretty ironic that they know (in detail) and obey their laws 100%, and understand there are consequences for violations, but they act like they're incapable of understanding society's laws.
 
Murrmurr said:
I agree. Where I live, using the /f/ word conversationally is a cultural thing. And so are tattoos.

Gang culture and the drug culture are the main ones here. They all have their own tats, their own language, and their own laws.

It's pretty ironic that they know (in detail) and obey their laws 100%, and understand there are consequences for violations, but they act like they're incapable of understanding society's laws.
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The criminal cultural sub-group and drug offenders converge, and have their own place and culture, the prison culture. The prison culture bleeds into mainstream society, brings it's language, perceptions and attitudes, and influences mainstream society.

Edit: it's the same socialization process, like when little Johnny joins the military and goes off to war. Little Johnny comes back to mainstream society, brings his potty mouth and worldly habits, some bad, some not so good.
 
I learned the hard way after my divorce. Today I avoid women who often use the F word, other profanity, and lewd gestures. Men also.
 
Well. I go thru streaks where I swear alot. Then I quit for awhile. Then it sort of starts up. I only care because I think it is a bit unbecoming for a woman my age to be swearing like I was hanging with my hood. It is more lack of manners than lack of vocabulary that is the issue. And tats? I drove my ex frigging nuts by telling him I got a tat. He couldn’t see it…so wild speculation was driving him totally mad. What I did not say was that I had permanent eye liner done…which is a type of a tat….
 
davey said:
I always thought that billy connolly used the word in a well balanced and humourous manner and with his scots accent didn't offend to much - certainly not from the laughter from his elderly audiences?
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At first I was quite put off by Connolly's swearing but over time I was able to laugh at him. His bad language was never directed at anyone. It was not mean.

I have become quite fond of him.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
When anyone complains about women swearing obscenities, I think, "oh, you met my ex- sister-in-law?"
The "F" word is a great way to add oomph to a sentence, but that only works once. It's a cue to say "what I'm saying has weight". Of course, if you're in a foxhole, getting shot at, the word is perfectly normal. But repeated use is rather lame. That indicates the sayer feels that what he says won't be listened to, or be disregarded. Whether a male, or a female, overuses the word indicates a real lack of self esteem.
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Australian troops in the Great War were renowned for their cheerful swearing, so much so that the word "bloody" became known as the Great Australian Adjective. So much so that a poem, titled The Australaise, was published in a newspaper at that time. The swear word was represented by a dash. You'll notice that the profanity could be inserted into words of more than one syllable.

Fellers of Australier,
Blokes an' coves an' coots,
Shift yer —- carcases,
Move yer —- boots.
Gird yer —- loins up,
Get yer —- gun,
Set the —- enermy
An' watch the blighters run.

CHORUS:
Get a —- move on,
Have some —- sense.
Learn the —- art of
Self de- —- -fence.

Have some —- brains be-
Neath yer —- lids.
An' swing a —- sabre
Fer the missus an' the kids.
Chuck supportin' —- posts,
An' strikin' —- lights,
Support a —— fam'ly an'
Strike fer yer —- rights.

CHORUS:
Get a —- move on, etc.

Joy is —- fleetin',
Life is —- short.
Wot's the use uv wastin' it
All on —- sport?
Hitch yer —- tip-dray
To a —- star.
Let yer —- watchword be
"Australi- —- -ar!"

CHORUS:
Get a —- move on, etc.

'0w's the —- nation
Goin' to ixpand
'Lest us —- blokes an' coves
Lend a —- 'and?
'Eave yer —- apathy
Down a —- chasm;
'Ump yer —- burden with
Enthusi- —- -asm.

CHORUS:
Get a —- move on, etc.

W'en old mother Britain
Calls yer native land
Take a —- rifle
In yer —- 'and
Keep yer —- upper lip
Stiff as stiff kin be,
An' speed a —- bullet for
Post- —- -ity.

CHORUS:
Get a —- move on, etc.

W'en the —- bugle
Sounds "Ad- —- -vance"
Don't be like a flock er sheep
In a —- trance
Biff the —- Kaiser
Where it don't agree
Spifler- —- -cate him
To Eternity.

CHORUS:
Get a —- move on, etc.

Fellers of Australier,
Cobbers, chaps an' mates,
Hear the —- German
Kickin' at the gates!
Blow the —- bugle,
Beat the —- drum,
Upper-cut an' out the cow
To kingdom- —- -come!

CHORUS:
Get a —- move on,
Have some —- sense.
Learn the —- art of
Self de- —- -fence.
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Muskrat said:
Well. I go thru streaks where I swear alot. Then I quit for awhile. Then it sort of starts up. I only care because I think it is a bit unbecoming for a woman my age to be swearing like I was hanging with my hood. It is more lack of manners than lack of vocabulary that is the issue. And tats? I drove my ex frigging nuts by telling him I got a tat. He couldn’t see it…so wild speculation was driving him totally mad. What I did not say was that I had permanent eye liner done…which is a type of a tat….
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Ooooh, you are aw---ful. :ROFLMAO:
 
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