Foul language on here.

[Lemondrizzle4A]

AIBU to expect people to use less foul language on here. I’m put off by people using c , f.
Im not a prude and believe me there is many a time I’ve used the F word in conversations but wouldn’t dream of using it on here and never the c word.
Edited as deleted the asterisks - obviously doesn’t like them.

"Foul"? In your opinion.

I dont really care what others write as long as its not SHOULD OF 😂

I don't like it because I associate it with anger and aggression. I'm 56, from a WC background and the only time I ever heard it when I was young was from deeply unpleasant angry men and the bullies at school. It reminds me of road rage, the mouthing off between men before a fight starts and the rough kids at school who'd graffiti it onto desks.
I get times have changed, but and it's more widespread now, but I still don't hear it often. I work in a reasonably sweary office, but the only time I've ever heard it was when someone chose it deliberately to emphasise how awful a clients partner was (DV case) and apologised but said they had no other word for him. So, selected for extreme meaning rather than casually dropped.
There is obviously no rational reason for disliking a word, but associations persist.

How dare these fucking cuntweasels use such cunting bad language! Shitcan the fucking lot of them!

Swearing, on Mumsnet? Fucking hell!

Strange way to describe giving them a Behaviour Point for swearing/inappropriate language.

Anyhow, there's a world of difference between a kid swearing in your presence and swearing at you.

I don’t have those associations, but that makes perfect sense to me.

This.

Wonders if need to change username - nah fuck that. I am an adult and will swear if I want to 😂

Oh great, yet another one of these threads from a pearl clutcher 🙄
Look love, there are loads of forums out there, perhaps you need to find one that you find less offensive. Good luck finding one that no-one swears on though. Fuck I bet that's hard 🤔

You might be happier on a board I was on years ago dedicated to discussion of the Chalet School books. It auto-corrected anything it considered 'bad language', which meant that every time 'Scunthorpe' appeared (it was a board where your geographical location appeared under your username when you posted, and one of the regulars was from Scunthorpe), it autocorrected it to something ridiculous.

God, that all takes me back! You bad bad kitten, HullyGully and GetOrf particularly.
<<misty-eyed>>

Fair point, well made

It's a Fucking Cunt- Fest on here !!😁

The problem is when the OP has done a whole post about what a twat her DH is and obviously you have to tell her that he's quite obviously a cunt🤷

I've been on here for at least 15 years. There's always been some healthy Anglo Saxon usage. YANBU to dislike it. YABU to have expectations of other people's usage.

I'm not a fan of littering every sentence with it in conversation. I don't mind it on here. It's quite cathartic.

Eg... Saying Nigel Farage can get to fuck, feels entirely healthy and reasonable. Saying 'i went to the fucking pub and had a fucking amazing meal' is just a waste. Needs to be used for emphasis or it loses impact.

YANBU about the 'c' word. That is a sexist misogynist slur so I am stunned that women are using it. YABU about fuck word though.

In Scotland the word cunt has very little to do with misogyny usually. It is rarely registered as swearing. It’s just punctuation.

@EveryKneeShallBow not sure if it is swearing but I always enjoyed the use of Bawheed when I lived up there 😆

It isn’t any different from calling someone a dick or a bellend, and it’s applicable to both sexes.

It’s fine if you don’t want to use it, of course. But you can’t expect everyone to have the same subjective opinion on what it implies.

Interestingly, nobody who insists that ‘cunt’ is a misogynist slur ever seems to have the same reaction to the word ‘twat’ which means exactly the same thing.

I would certainly consider myself a feminist and I happily use the word ‘cunt’ - as an insult, as an ironic term of endearment, and as my preferred bedroom term for the body part in question.

I think it’s only really in America that it sometimes gets used in a misogynist way, but it’s used much more rarely there in general.

Fucking bloody hell. MN has always been a collection of cunts.

I agree with you, OP.

Each to his or her own.

And I learned the great acronym ODFOD here. As well as the wonderful phrase: Fuck off to the far side of fuck and then fuck off some more.

Highly cathartic. Thank you, vipers!