To cringe when middle class women swear

[dopaminego]

On Mumsnet at least they use embarrassing words like 'cockwomble' and think it's edgy. Only working and upper class people sound right swearing.

Only middle class is cringeworthy? Not working class or upper class?

I can understand disliking classes in general but it seems a wee bit unfair to single out the middles.

No one would look at my life, or that of my parents and say we were working class. My grandparents were very poor and had manual jobs but their parents were very much fancier.

There no landed gentry in the family tree so we definitely aren’t aristocracy.

How would you prefer to identify me? Or prefer I identify myself? Definitely wouldn’t want to activate your “cringe” response.

Well, I think it's rather amusing when someone with a plummy accent swears.
I think your post is a bit nonsense and also... why only women that you have an issue with?

this. I don't swear to sound edgy and never have. I use the vocabulary that I wish to use.

I start my week at work all professional and determined not to swear. As the week goes on I become almost Adele level of potty mouthed.

Oh dear, your post didn't land well.. Maybe you can delete it. I'm embarrassed for you.

That all said - why are we still supporting class system? It’s the most gross thing going. Get rid of it.

What am I fucking supposed to identify as if I cunting am middle class?

ODFOD

FMOB, whatever next?

I reserve the worst swear words for muttering under my breath or yelling when all the contents of the kitchen cupboard fall on my head. I don’t care what ‘class’ anyone is when they swear. They’re just words. Although there was the time DP and I were minding our own business doing a bit of Saturday browsing in the shop windows when we heard a woman’s voice shout ‘Oi! Cunty Ballix’ in a broad Belfast accent. It was one of DP’s work colleagues greeting him from the other side of the road🤣🤣 We have Belfast accents too btw - no judgement! It still makes me both cringe and laugh every time I remember it. I do really hate it when people pepper their everyday talk with swear words though. SIL’s partner just throws f bombs in all over the shop. One fuck doesn’t wait for the next one to come along.

What categories of men are permitted to swear without it being cringeworthy?

Although I have never irl , heard anyone say, "fuck off to the far side of fuck...." why waste that much time/breath when you can just say fuck off?

I can only assume you’ve never heard Olivia Coleman swear. Poetry in motion.

Sorry I’m old, I don’t know that term.

Fuck off

Look it up.

Well bugger me, what would my middle class parents say? !😅

Not this shit again.

Meh, don't care really! Feel embarrassed for me if you wish.

I can't even write that embarrassing word it makes me cringe so much.
I'm working class and a bit of a swearer though i do know when to keep my mouth shut!

Dilligaf

Came here to say this... bet you wouldn't see a thread about middle class men swearing too much or it being cringe etc.

Ive never heard anyone saying cockwomble in RL. But im in Glasgow, if you said that here you'd get laughed at.
Calling someone a cunt here is being friendly.

My mum, middle class, raised £££s for the British & Foreign Bible Society by swearing a lot. My brother and I had fun counting the swear words as she ranted. 2p in the box by the phone for each word, a tariff set by her. Now I understand. She was taking a stand based on her social class, not on her intention as a parent to teach us to be well mannered.

It’s a bit of a conundrum, isn’t it? Many people might feel swearing is fine in the appropriate setting or circumstances.
The trouble is, it’s at its most effective when it”s most inappropriate. For me, anyway.

Actually, research shows swearing is a sign of intelligence https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/swearing-study-intelligent-intelligence-university-of-rochester-a7916516.html

Sorry if you’re a bit dim OP. Personally, I bloody love a good cuss.