How to make me cringe
Current mood: annoyed (at the loser kid wandering around the computers)
A woman starting working at the jobsite this week. She is with the HVAC company and is rather pretty. Unfortunately she swears. Badly. Thankfully it's a large site and so I'm rarely within earshot of her but when I am it's not a pleasure. In the book'The Gulag Archipelago' by Solzhenitzyn, he mentions that there was a priest who was tortured by having a female officer come into his cell and just swear at him for minutes on end. I didn't understand it before but now I see why it was torture for him. Hearing a pretty woman (or any woman really) swear is just like getting kicked in the stomach. Because of the enviroment where I work I hear people swear constantly and am actually getting slightly inured to it.However, I pray that I will never get used to hearing a woman do it. Maybe I'm just old fashioned but it just seems to go against nature to hear words like that come out of a woman's mouth.
4 Comments:
I am sorry you have to deal with something like that...
Welcome to life, dude... :P
At least the guys I know tone down their language around me... the girls who are going to swear in the first place are usually the type that don't care.
that pretty much the case. I suppose she either doesn't care or is trying to be 'one of the guys'. Either way it is a total turnoff.
Swearing is a bad habit but it really lets you release some tension. What i usually do is try and come up with stuff and not resort to the usual... My current euphamism is holy frijoles! it makes me smile. freddy fudpucker is a nice one too. it's the name of a drink. I also like to call jerks "cross-eyed and flea ridden", and let me tell you it helps alot. Maybe if you start using colorful terms that you enjoy without swearing, it'll help your comrades change their behaviour. And if you come up with a choice one they'll start bandying it about too!
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