Congratulations to women for shattering another glass ceiling this week: British women now swear more often than British men, and they say the F-word almost five times as much as they did in the 1990s, according to a study. As someone who believes the word “ladylike” to be so offensive that it should never be uttered pre-watershed, I am wholly in favour of equal-opportunity cursing. I grew up so terrified of it that I thought “fart” was a rude word until I was a teenager. On the flip side, half of my family are Irish immigrants for whom cursing, for men and women, was celebratory and consoling. That women are as profane as men is surely only a surprise to those who have not met women before.

Source: The Guardian November 07, 2016 18:06 UTC