• Lemminary
    link
    81 day ago

    A lot of behaviors are learned and people have learned that using profanity in most places gets you in trouble. I don’t think it’s fair to berate anyone for what is essentially a social expectation in many other circles.

    Good thing Lemmy isn’t like that. But, please, lighten the fuck up.

    • @LwL
      link
      215 hours ago

      It’s just the opposite social expectation here. And honestly it bothers me not because some people do it but because it feels like american puritanism taking over online spaces because it’s even in screenshots. Like holy shit you’re quoting someone just leave the swearing in.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      91 day ago

      using profanity in most places gets you in trouble

      Most places in the theocratic kleptocracy of Magastan, I assume; a few places (or circumstances) in the civilised world, which in most cases can be avoided due to them being excessively silly.

      In any case, though, that’s not the fucking point.

      If you don’t want to use a word, don’t fucking use it. Use a fucking synonym, or euphemism, or metaphor, or insinuation, or whatever.

      Using most of the word but censoring one of the letters, however, is so utterly stupid and hypocritical that it’s insulting both to the readers and the writer. You’re still using the word, just with an intentional typo. You’re not lying to anyone except yourself.

      lighten the fuck up

      No, I don’t think I will.