US Supreme Court Upholds Affordable Health Care Act

[ShadowHM]

I missed this on the first pass.

We got here because someone suggested that someone else "Grow a Pair" -- to which someone became offended with the implication that positive attributes such as courage, tenacity, and assertiveness require testicles. I tend to expand things into the general, and stated my observations on our society. To me, it's not limited to that phrase, but to a general trend of vulgarizing our culture.

If you generalized from my comment that it was the vulgarity of that figure of speech that was offensive to me, you failed to take in my objection. I was not objecting to the oblique mention of testicles. I was objecting to the sexist nature of the figure of speech. I linked it to a racist figure of speech (that has blessedly gone away) to try to make that point clear.

Vulgarity is something that is both ubiquitous and undefinable. Look up the source of the word. What we all should be teaching our children is where to use language. Appropriate language for the locker room doesn't belong in grandma's presence and vice versa. The shorthand English of texting is inappropriate for corporate emails and vice versa.