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I wish I was as bold as these authors.
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I love the term too but I wonder how it'll be used in situations where profanity is discouraged
I couldn't care less about places in which profanity is discouraged.
If you're going to be disrespectful, you'll be so regardless of language.
For instance:
"You suck donkey balls"
vs.
(And bear in mind that I don't use this term!)
"You're mentally retarded"
No profanity in the second one. And yet, I'd feel like punching the person's face who would say the second one to me. Not because someone would say that to me, but because I find the use of the label offensive in general.
So, fuck it.
If you want to get technical, only saying things like "Jesus Christ" as a statement of exasperation are profanities, because they are supposed to disrespect sacred things, but I think these days, we could consider the profane to be the disrespectful. In which case, I would say that the R-word is a profanity, for the same reason the N-word is a profanity.
If we're trending technical in our etymological taxonomies, then the X-words are all slurs because they insult people for belonging to specific groups. As you say, profanities and blasphemies need to address the sacred in some disrespectful way. I believe that leaves... curse words and expletives as the remaining categories of naughty words. Any others? I suppose vulgarity and obscenity, but those feel like subtypes of expletives to me.