Re: swearing good

[Glen Strickland <strick9r@cadvantage.com>]

"Coach" (Glen Strickland)

At 10:04 AM 7/5/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Tuna says that Rodger says that he's read stuff which speaks to swearing
>as a male power thing.  that's a reference to evidence the rest of us
>may not have seen.  i'd like to see it.  that's right Biles, 
>
>I'M CALLING YOU OUT, OLD MAN.
>
>now i know Glen's on for the summer:  Glen, please let Rodger know that
>Slick thinks Rodger doesn't have SHIT for evidence.
>
>i think the assertion that swearing somehow disadvantages women or
>minorities is crap. there's no reason to believe it except the shit
>people make up to further their own SMILEY FACES OF DEATH agenda.  and
>here is some EVIDENCE:
>
>Professor Vivian de Klerk explains in her study "How taboo are taboo
>words for girls?" published in the December 1992 issue of Language in
>Society:  
>
>"In a study (de Klerk 1990) carried out on English-speaking South
>African adolescents in order to ascertain their command and use of
>slang, some interesting results emerged that demand that comfortable
>theories about 'nice,' nonswearing females are long overdue for
>reconsideration.  Regardless of the reasons for the current shifts in
>usage (de Klerk 1991), it would seem that change is in the air.  Results
>of the present article conform nicely with results obtained by Risch
>(1987), based on North American data:  Females do use derogatory
>language and appear to be doing so in increasing numbers.  The fact that
>the same trends have been noticed in speech communities that are worlds
>apart is of particular interest.  In this study, it is suggested that
>the stereotype that males are typically slang users and females slang
>eschewers may not be accurate and that the well-documented lexical bias
>of derogatory words referring to females that exists in the English
>language is not matched in mental lexicons of individual speakers, who
>give evidence of a bias in favor of females.  Analysis of the data
>discussed in this article reveals RESULTS THAT STRONGLY CONTRADICT THE
>FACT THAT ATTITUDES FAVOR MALES, NOT FEMALES, AS USERS OF SLANG.  Such a
>discrepancy between reported attitude and actual practice is an instance
>of a phenomenon that is of general sociolinguistic importance."
>(pp.277-278).  
>
>The capitalization is, of course, mine.
>
>just because you like to waltz doesn't mean we can't tango.
>michael korcok
>

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