That is a good way to go through life.
You ancient person you.
I care what friends and relatives say about me. But I am pretty sure none of them post here.
Again, more power too you.
Seriously, you don’t have to convince me. You shouldn’t care what I think about whether you care what I think about you.
Oh, you might also want to stay away from the twitter account of Paul Bissonnette, the color analyst for the Arizona Coyotes radio.
OK, but Bernie Sanders is 79 years old. He predates the baby boom generation.
I don’t really get why a person who works at a sports writing job that drops ‘fucks’ into articles having a ‘fuck’ on their home page would be a big deal. Clearly it’s part of their brand, and like other people have said it’s likely she plays up the swearing. And I agree that the obsession with this particular reporter comes off extremely creeepy.
And on the other side of the political spectrum, Trump uses significantly worse language than Bernie Sanders does - if any politician is used to mean ‘supporters are cool with bad language’, Trump makes more sense as an example than Sanders.
Sure, if your employer told you, that’s a matter between you and your employer.
What is bizarre is for your social media friends - or even non-friends - to question whether your boss is okay with something you wrote.
It doesn’t impress me very positively, but I’m a half a century older than she is. Given my perception of her age cohort that follows her, I’m inclined to think it is a good career move. Nothing bad appears to have followed, and she did get attention, which is now the coin of the realm…
I’m with the OP. I think it shows an incredible lack of class and is disrespectful to the fans of the team, especially the young kids.
I’m certainly not a prude. I’ll use that language in private settings with friends and in my personal capacity when dealing with people who are not offended by it (such as on the SDMB).
But I think it shows a general degradation of society in general when that sort of language is out there for all and sundry in a professional context.
Further, the criticism in this thread seems absolute as if using that language is acceptable in all circumstances. If there is a limiting principle from many of the arguments, I don’t see it.
If I am giving a presentation in front of a room full of people and am running ten minutes late because of the weather, I don’t think anyone here would defend me if I rushed into the room with 80 people waiting, shaking rain off of me while stating “Fuck me like a whore on rent day, it sure is pretty goddamn wet out there.”
So what is the standard? That it is social media instead of in person?
Ahem. Me, in post #23:
Or, “know your audience.”
I for one don’t think the OP did anything wrong. Informing her of the potential issue is perfectly fine. I might have worded it differently, but it’s not a big deal. There is a potential issue there with potential customers getting offended, and thus the boss might care.
I agree the word isn’t that bad, but it still has a reason to be forbidden–so that kids have something they can say to be a bit rebellious. It’s a lot better than the 13 year olds who think they’re being edgy by saying the n-word.
It’s good for society to have some minor taboos that aren’t actually that bad when broken. Not only for kids being rebellious, but so we also so we can express ourselves. “This is so bad, I’m willing ot break this taboo” is useful communication.
Plus apparently saying actual curse words while being hurt alleviate pain more than other words. So it’s good to keep them around.
Were I in your audience, I might later point out to you that “whore” has been replaced in polite society with “sex worker”. Other than that, meh.
That is a fucking stupid reason for making a word taboo.
There’s a lot of air between saying “fuck” and being a little racist. Like, a whole fuckload of air.
I don’t know what you do, but her workplace is hockey games and wherever she writes the articles.
Never understood why when a single person does something that someone doesn’t like, they mumble about society.
I’m getting more of a ‘know your audience’/‘this is her audience’ vibe here.
Maybe not. If those 80 people were waiting to see Jeff Ross and he walked in and said that, they’d laugh.
Unless you’re a sportswriter, I’m not sure that comparison has anything to do with anything.
The word gets printed in newspapers, FFS. Maybe not in headlines. But it’s right there in the Washington Post if you search.
Really? My guess would be that she didn’t reply because its weird as fuck that somebody is contacting her about it.
Weird as fuck, and with the roommate comments, creepy as fuck.
Giving off a bit of a creepy vibe.
Asking a stranger what her boss thinks of her behavior is creepy.
I agree, the roommate thing is creepy as hell. And the question about whether her boss knows about it is something I would assume is an implied threat to go over her head to inform the boss about it.