Re:My positive experience as a woman in tech
by tomp on Friday December 18, 2015 @08:05AM
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In my experience, with my friends, male friends are much more likely to swear than female. So it's reasonable to assume they would also be more accepting of other people swearing, and generalize this assumption to other people.
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Re:My positive experience as a woman in tech
by meowface on Friday December 18, 2015 @09:09AM
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That's fair; I can see why you'd have that viewpoint, in that case. In my own experience, my male and female friends all swear with about equal frequency. I've never noticed a trend like that myself. It might be area- and culture-dependent to some degree, maybe? I live on the US east coast.
Re:My positive experience as a woman in tech
by tomp on Friday December 18, 2015 @09:25AM
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Yes, very likely. Or language-dependent, as well - in English, "fuck" can very conveniently be placed almost everywhere, and has (IMO) lost a lot of its charge... In Sloveinan, many swear-words carry much stronger emphasis.