Quote from: Kylo on November 27, 2018, 04:24:27 AM
Some people get afraid you're going to get angry and escalate when the colourful metaphors come out. It's taken as a precursor to violence by some, or an indication you are heading that way. That's the only reason I can see in this day and age.
It never meant that to me. It was more an indication of being comfortable with a person enough to swear with them, to me. If someone's going to be violent that's usually obvious from body language alone.
That makes sense, I guess. That the words are loaded. And I have noticed that when I get angry at things around me and curse more, people are quick to assume I'm gonna transfer my anger to them as well. By which I mean they might think I'll get violent. But when I'm not angry and use swear words in very casual ways I mostly get the impression that people think it's simply unnecessary or that they're bothered by my language being "unclean". That's what I really have a problem with, I guess. Maybe I'm too quick to assume that people can read my body language though, and tone of voice if it's irl or over phone, well enough to figure out when I'm not emotional or anywhere close to getting violent, no matter how much I curse.
