{"id":455740,"date":"2018-01-16T16:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/01\/16\/lifestyle-do-men-find-women-who-swear-unattractive\/"},"modified":"2018-01-16T16:00:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T16:00:22","slug":"lifestyle-do-men-find-women-who-swear-unattractive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/01\/16\/lifestyle-do-men-find-women-who-swear-unattractive\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifestyle: Do men find women who swear unattractive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Tuesday, 16 January 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>adomonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-01-16<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/77887052.295.jpg\" alt=\"Angry Couple Sitting On Sofa Stock Photo Fighting \" title=\"Angry Couple Sitting On Sofa Stock Photo Fighting \" width=\"295\" height=\"200\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Angry couple<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817981905\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817981905\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1516118422_506_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">It might be 2018 but women are still told that it\u2019s \u2018unbecoming\u2019 of a lady to swear. Preferences are preferences when it comes to dating and it\u2019s understandable if you prefer a partner who doesn\u2019t have a foul mouth.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s disturbing when women especially are told that swearing is unattractive or that it is too masculine because it presupposes that women have a duty to appear attractive.<\/p>\n<p>We do not. And it borders on how we view language ownership, and men seem to have some sort of monopoly on aspects of it, like profanity.<\/p>\n<p>The same sexist attitude extends to women who speak in slang or certain vernaculars i.e \u2018street\u2019 who might be told that it doesn\u2019t suit them.<\/p>\n<p>A language consultant at King College London, Tony Thorne tells Metro.co.uk that, thankfully, gender roles are changing and men are (or will have to be) coming to terms that language should have an equal playing field.<\/p>\n<p>He says: \u2018Both gender fluidity and the questioning of gender norms have changed perceptions of feminine behaviour and masculine responses fundamentally and the effect of social media in empowering women and giving them an equal voice.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018But we can see from messages on social media that many men have not evolved, cling to macho attitudes whereby \u2013 probably because they feel embattled and insecure \u2013 they choose to, or pretend to believe in such dated concepts as \u201cladylike women don\u2019t use bad language\u201d.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>So what do blokes think about women swearing these days? \u2018Personally, I don\u2019t find unattractive, but I do understand that some will say different.<\/p>\n<p>But I don\u2019t swear myself so I try to make those around me do the same,\u2019 says Jodel, 23. In an earlier conversation, he told me that he doesn\u2019t find it appealing when girls speak in certain dialects, for example, a colloquial regional slang.<\/p>\n<p>Hugh, 25, on the other hand does find swearing a put-off. \u2018I find it quite vulgar if a woman swears. I feel it makes them seem more masculine if she does. I\u2019m more used to men swearing more. To be honest, I try not to swear myself because it isn\u2019t good manners\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>While they may not intend to take full ownership of profanity and also slang language, men who feel that women shouldn\u2019t act this way just by virtue of being female, need to realise that this is essentially what they are propagating, that they are the sole users of this territory.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018There is an expectation that girls shouldn\u2019t cuss and swear or use the extreme sexual terminology that boys use to \u2018big themselves up\u2019 and the only way for young males to justify uncomfortable feelings towards girls using this language is to tell them it\u2019s not sexy,\u2019 adds Tony.<\/p>\n<p>If anything, studies have shown that honest and intelligent people swear more  \u2013 that may be why women are swearing more. While not all men feel that women shouldn\u2019t swear and\/or use slang terms, those who do might want to dig deeper and ask themselves why they\u2019ve put up limitations on what women can and should do.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 44 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment of Tuesday, 16 January 2018 Source: adomonline.com 2018-01-16 Angry couple It might be 2018 but women are still told that it\u2019s \u2018unbecoming\u2019 of a lady to swear. Preferences are preferences when it comes to dating and it\u2019s understandable if you prefer a partner who doesn\u2019t have a foul mouth. But it\u2019s disturbing when women [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":455742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}