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In reply to the discussion: I'm confused by people who are offended by swear words. [View all]dumbcat
(2,120 posts)only in my growing up, vulgar/crass people were by definition "lower class". But when I use the term "class" here I am thinking more of intellectual ability, which to me is part of social class, not economic class.
Like you, in my childhood there was no use of profanity on either side of our families. Both families were rural farm laborers and tradesmen, raised during the depression. Not high class anything. But the males still wore jackets and ties and hats when going to town, and the women wore dresses and other appropriate attire. Profanity was just not acceptable among civilized people back then.
Times have changed. I have watched them change, and the cultural changes included. I don't like many of them, but there's not anything I can do about it. It is something to think about, though, especially as we get older and see more decades of change.