Um, I realize that the audience here is mostly university students, but do we really need frat house language in our submission titles now?
I'm not really offended, but would you say that you "had a chubby" for a new feature around the boardroom table, with women present? It would be nice if we could keep this site a little more esteemed than the sad excuse for language found on most of the internet.
EDIT (Obviously, the editors have changed the title.)
What the heck has slang got to do with gender in this case? I'd use slang like that around women or men, but probably not in the board room, no. Women aren't all delicate flowers you have to tip-toe around, y'know.
I think most men know that there are phrases that can be said in a locker room that wouldn't endear you to the average women, but that doesn't really reflect on women at all.
There are certainly always exceptions, but unless you're a fairly tame guy or friends with fairly non-typical women, locker-room talk usually won't go over well.
My comment wasn't in anyway meant to be demeaning to women.
In the US, perhaps. Maybe the ladies are just courser here in Europe but get a few of them together and they're usually coming out with language that'd make me blush.
In the upper middle classes and above, perhaps. In the working class, my personal experience is the old are just as foul mouthed as the young (although they tend to use it in the correct company, rather than everyplace). This might sound classist, but I'm working class and it's what I've experienced in any case.
I'm not really offended, but would you say that you "had a chubby" for a new feature around the boardroom table, with women present? It would be nice if we could keep this site a little more esteemed than the sad excuse for language found on most of the internet.
EDIT (Obviously, the editors have changed the title.)