A. When people choose to communicate sensitively it does not necessarily mean that they have any desire whatsoever to control how others speak, or even that they disapprove of how others speak, or of the people themselves. It also does not necessarily mean that they are afraid of being un-PC. It can simply mean that their life experience is such that they choose to speak as they choose to speak.

B. Asterisks are usually used here NOT so that people will think they are speaking nicely. They are used so that the word intended in all the richness of its vulgar glory will pass an anti-profanity program that keeps otehrwise some members' workplace computers from accessing Mudcat.

C. A preoccupation with others' attempts to be controlling often masks an equal effort to control. I found the outcry against my choice of speech, in a thread titled to cover a number of variant song titles, cast in terms of complaints about control, very amusing.... You see, in this case-- it was me who was being pressured, actually! *G*

~Susan