Posted by NikkiT2 on January 6, 2007, at 13:49:17
In reply to Re: The No Offensive Language Rule » Dr. Bob, posted by JeffSmith on January 6, 2007, at 12:52:34
Sorry to be briefer than you have been, but..
Um, I can only think of one 4 letter word that is also used for female gentalia. Thats "the c word".
Oh, actually, my husband just pointed another out! the "t" one *l* In my world, that word carried no where near the weight the other does.
Maybe you need to be female to understand why this is so offensive to many of us. Most would accept that this is about the strongest, most derogatory word there is. I, personally, do not like a part of my body that I rather like having being used in such a derogatory manner.
You ask if there is a difference with the asterixing.
I think so, yes. To me it implies that ~some~ effort has been gone to to reduce this offence. I'm not naive, or sheltered or anything like that, and obviously come across this word in my real life. But, this ~is~ a medium where the use of it can be fogged.. and asterixing doesn't hide thw word, or remove it, but it does make ~me~ feel like some effort has gone into preventing the use of this word.I don't know whether or not you were around during the original discussions about this issue.. but I seem to remember the asterixing actually being a compromise of some kind.. Which does happen here at times ;)
Nikki
poster:NikkiT2
thread:717797
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20061228/msgs/719866.html