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New research from the Department Of Things Most People Already Suspected To Be True (not a real thing) and Wright State University in Ohio (real) found that swearing is significantly more common in twitspeech than in IRL speech. In fact, sentences on Twitter were more than twice as likely to contain a swear word than sentences used IRL; one out of ever 13 tweets contains a "rude" word, according to The Guardian.
Unsurprisingly, the most common swear deployed in Twitter-land was FUCK, the Class President of swears (present in 34.7% of sweary tweets), followed by "SHIT" and "ASS," the prom king and queen of swears (present in 15% and 14.5% of swear-containing tweets), and then BITCH, voted "Best Dressed" of the swears, in 10.3% of cases. Bringing up the rear (or, as they'd say on Twitter, "ass" of the swear pack were "hell," "whore," "dick," "piss," and "pussy," which sounds like a solid basketball team starting lineup. Dick is obviously the point guard.
But perhaps more interesting than the obvious that internet is basically to real life interaction what a bouncy castle is to real life walking is the way that those swear words were deployed, who was using them, and how they were using them. Researchers found that the group most likely to use gendered anti-female insults weren't the angry fedora-doffing manchildren trying to bully ladies off the internet. They're women talking to other women.
http://jezebel.com/ladies-on-twitter-love-calling-other-ladies-bitches-and-1529675603
MADem
(135,425 posts)Posted (more than once) in the comment section:
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)It just HAS to be men disguised as women!
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)to get a false sense of a leg up in the patriarchy.
Why do working class people vote republican?
Orrex
(63,261 posts)But when women do bad things to women it's because bad men are bad men.
Got it..
polly7
(20,582 posts)saying when men do bad things to other men it's because of women.
Because of course women just can't naturally disagree on anything or have differing opinions, or even get pissed at other women - we're just not capable of it.
Orrex
(63,261 posts)pintobean
(18,101 posts)like a wet dog.
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)Why can't I as a white person use the n-word?
I'm being oppressed!
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)The first times I ever heard the c-word and the t-word (rhymes with "swat" were from female roommates and coworkers insulting other women.
quinnox
(20,600 posts)I have seen posters at DU who are both known to be women absolutely shred each other to bits over various topics. I mean, ferociously and no holds barred, trading savage insults. I would not want to get in those kinds of duels!
Vashta Nerada
(3,922 posts)Behind the Aegis
(54,044 posts)This is actually common in a number of minority communities. Keep in mind, some of it is in jest, but other times, it is meant to establish dominance, shame, or ridicule like any other time a slur is used.
Scout
(8,624 posts)... and how about the women, do they do it too?
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)On second thought, it's probably the girls (i.e. over age 18 girls) doing it too.
Dorian Gray
(13,517 posts)for a couple of years. It was quite common for women to use language like C*$# and T*!t in jest (almost in an affectionate way) with one another.
I don't use language like that, but I do question whether it is possible to do so without feeling offended or oppressed by the language. It seems that it's quite common in England to do so. Is that right? Or a product of social conditioning? I honestly don't know.
loli phabay
(5,580 posts)cursing is an artform that has been refined across all the diffetent dialects and regions.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Twitter seems like a cess pool. I have no interest in getting an account.