Uses of language have historically varied according to the company one was in or according to the setting and context in which one was speaking. A man might use different language when speaking to his compatriots informally then he would use if he needed to communicate the same idea in proper company or in a formal atmosphere. Men understood that other men could take direct speech without freaking out like preadolescent little girls who have just been given a stern lecture by their fathers on not getting their assigned homework finished.
With the rise of political correctness the gonads of masculine speech are being crushed between the failing testosterone of the omnipresent metro-sexual “male” and the estrogen of a permanent and twisted feminine class who seem to be perpetually on their periods. In our henpeckified climate today it is largely irrelevant anymore whether or not one is correct in their argument if the person making the argument can be dismissed because they have violated some kind of artificial psychologically invented and p.c. enforced “you hurt my feelings” code.
Please don’t mistake this as a essay advocating brutish and sottish conversation. I’ve worked much of my life with guys who could make whole sentences using nothing but scatological language. I know what it means to hear the same exact four letter word in a sentence used as adjective, noun, and verb. When I argue for the ability for men to be able to speak as men again, I am not arguing that all men should be allowed to be verbal cretins. I am merely arguing that men be allowed to speak as men again, which means a certain pointedness,and angular brevity, garlanded with a rhetorical splash. This kind of speech is only rude if you’ve grown up during the henpeckification of masculine discourse.
The ironic thing is that the current p.c. speech that is being pursued today is not only not masculine speech it is not even feminine speech. I would be embarrassed if my daughters began to be limited by its strictures. Rather, it is a speech code designed to create timid slaves who are afraid to speak their minds lest they offend the ruling class who is making these “boy George” speech rules. This p.c. henpeckificaiton of the language has the intent of impoverishing the language so that the great ideas that need great language to be adequately expressed will be impoverished along with the language.
If you want to control a people one way to do it is by controlling their language and speech. Greatness will never arise from a people where their speakers and writers are left inchoate, inarticulate, and sissified.
I remember in my pre-Christian days, getting drunk and while one of my buds strummed his guitar singing; “Were you born an a_ _ hole, or didja work at it yer whole life..?”
Original or besetting sin. Perhaps this is a question we should all ask of ourselves. Personally I think there’s a difference between strong language that comes from a position of strength (Christ), and bombast that come from fear and weakness. Let us each search our own hearts.