Good point.

This talk got restructured at least twice this week before I gave it, but I should have reworded those phrases, too.

On the other hand, I felt "Hire those bothered by suck" was the one sentence that resonated the most with me.

I liked that opener, myself, but you're probably right.

Maybe we should look on this as an opportunity to alter our vocabulary. I bet most of the people on this board are like me -- when they were twelve, they had a vocabulary like a college graduate. But somehow as adults we decided it was cool to talk like twelve-year-olds.

For some of us, somewhere between twelve and adult we realized that to communicate with most other people we had to talk like twelve year olds. After all, using big words & words others don't know confuses and angers people. (IME at least)

> [random butt statue]

The story is a few thousand years old http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_Callipyge#Interpretations The "objectification" might be considered sexist now, but I doubt the original story meant to belittle the women in any way.

If anything, that just goes to show how difficult it is to convey the right tone. Even when you're fully conscious of it, you may still fall for certain biases.