Diversity training = corporate ass-covering, nothing more.
Also, as a person who is an avid fan of the english language (I write), and one who uses that language to represent the varied and innumerable types of feelings and emotions contained within my fellow human beings (I write dialog, mainly), I would have to say that...
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Originally Posted by MoJoPokeyBlue
IMHO, people who use words like "fuck" and "cocksucker" to convey their emotional state are simply immature. I don't mean this in a negative or sarcastic way (unlike my first post, for which I again, apologize), it's just my opinion of the way things are. (I tend to use the word "immature" to reference an age group, not to degrade.) Personally, I don't understand why someone would want to use these words in everyday conversation. To take things further and actually "brag" about and "be proud of" how someone uses these words, is truly perplexing. I'd honestly like to sit down and have a conversation with such an individual, to try to understand them better.
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...is quite closed-minded with respect to the power of words and their meaning. Using words to convey emotion or feelings is, in many ways, much like painting (metaphically, of course) a beautiful landscape. Some people may talk like a Picasso- not much to hear, but with deep meaning nonetheless contained within it. Some might have the linguistic flare of a Monet. On close inspection, fragmented sound bytes... but take a few steps back and see the big picture for what it is, their passion for a topic they convey in small parts. Everyone paints a picture with their mode of speech- and the more words you use, the more evocative their emotions and feelings become.
To simply dismiss an entire palette of words as "immature" is missing the whole point behind words themselves: all words exist as tools for more accurately or faithfully conveying the meaning behind what they represent. To deny any word its usefulness is foolishness, IMO. Sure, "rape" is a horrible thing- but we must have a word to represent it, must we not?
Consider, if you will, that many of the works of Shakespeare are recognized as having very sexually racy content and strong language for the time period in which they were created... would you have censored poor Billy Shakespeare, and taken away our Hamlet? Our Romeo and Juliet? I'm not saying that "shit cocksucker balls" is akin to "wherefor art thou, Romeo?", it's just an observation.