Personally I swear all the time and dont see a problem with it, words are deemed 'offensive' because we say they are. c**t simply means a womens lady garden and shit obviously means defecating, so why do they become offensive over and above the words vagina and poo? I struggle to see in general how we define one word for something as being the worst word in the English language and another is perfectly acceptable?
Yes there are times were swearing is not appropriate in formal situations, in front of parents or at a job interview but at the football at the weekend in a casual and relaxed environment I dont see what harm it does so long as you are not discriminating against someone based on religion, color etc...
But that's the way it is. It is deemed to not be acceptable by society, in the same way you are not allowed to walk naked around the town centre.
Would you be happy for say children of 3, 4 or 5 to be saying c.nt, sh..t and f.ck all the time? No, of course not.
You yourself say you don't see a problem with it but then say at the same time say that there are times when it is not acceptable. Well in front of children or face to face with customers in work situations is deemed not to be acceptable. Now you can argue rightly or wrongly that it shouldn't be like that but is just the way it is and as a society it is deemed to be inappropriate and unacceptable.
Whether they are just words or not they are deemed unacceptable and we simply have to accept that is the way it is. Otherwise, we might as well teach children to swear at school and just say every word is acceptable.
C..t may be just a word for a vagina but it is a word that is deemed to be derogatory.
The problem I find is that my 8 year old is taught that swearing is wrong and if she did it at school she would be in serious trouble. She then goes on buses and in shops and round town and to football matches and hears it all the time. She then wants to know why people do it when she has been told it is very wrong. I just have to say that the people are 'naughty.'
I don't swear at football matches because invariably there are children about everywhere.
You go to see a band in concert, say someone like Muse, then it is a different audience, later at night and invariably an audience predominately made up of adults.
There will always be swearing at football matches because of the nature of the game and the intensity etc. but that at the same time doesn't give people free reign to swear as much as they like when they like in the presence of children.
Where I sit you hear the odd swear word here and there and it doesn't bother me in the slightest.
I guess at the end of the day it is all about degrees.