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“We should keep at it. Swearing is a powerful instrument, socially and emotionally. If women and men want to communicate as equals, we need to be equals in the ways in which we are allowed to express ourselves. Sod social censure. Let us allow men to cry and women to swear: we need both means of expression.”
― Swearing Is Good For You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language
― Swearing Is Good For You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language
“We should keep at it. Swearing is a powerful instrument, socially and emotionally. If women and men want to communicate as equals, we need to be equals in the ways in which we are allowed to express ourselves. Sod social censure. Let us allow men to cry and women to swear: we need both means of expression. I like this observation from British-American anthropologist Ashley Montagu, writing in the 1960: 'If women wept less they would swear more... Today instead of swooning or breaking into tears, she will often swear and then do whatever is indicated. it is, in our view, a great advance upon the old style.'
Too fucking right.”
― Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language
Too fucking right.”
― Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language
“So much of the way we judge women’s language, and their behavior, still rests on the antiquated double standards of a handful of long-dead churchmen.”
― Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language
― Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language
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