Moksha is on a blogging hiatus, but my stats suggest she may still be reading. If she is, she will discover that this post is for her, since I know she will appreciate it.
How do I know that? Well, she liked a term I coined, “Bible-drippers.” With her in mind I will dare to write here, what I did not say in a conversation with a whiteman who was losing his mind on Friday.
What I thought, but did not say: “Allez-vous-en, you ineffectual and deluded old man. Make sure you don’t hit anyone’s car in the parking lot on your way out. Find yourself some better cock to suck. Even you can do a damn sight better than you are now in the cocksucking department.”
Sometimes I really wish I had a blue collar job, so I could use language which actually fit the behavior of certain individuals. When I was a girl, I dated a boy who worked in the shipyards. He argued with his foreman one day, and quit. The foreman said, if you leave, do not expect to come back. He said, do not worry, if I come back, it will be to kick your ass.
At a university I attended there was a full professor from the Old World, very refined, and a prizewinning poet. Famously, during an Academic Senate meeting at which some administrators were being investigated for corruption, he said to one of them, “I could kick your ass all day and not get tired.”
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
Professor Z… please, I beg of you… don’t wish for a blue collar job – not ever. Speaking as a dim witted southern girl who worked at a steel mill for almost 10 years – I wouldn’t wish it on anybody. An example of just such an exchange? I got my hair cut really super short one time… and one of the forklift drivers came in and said, “Damn, you look like a fucking dike with that haircut.” My reply, “Well, if I could suck a cock as well as you I wouldn’t have to hit the carpet you fuck.”
Now… who was more stupid… me or him? Pft…
I’d say me.
Good response, Amy (to that guy, but also to me)! I’ve had a couple of blue collar jobs, and I know. Comment on that, from my father, on two neighbor boys who became ‘leftists’ and went blue collar AS CAREERS to show solidarity/identity with the working classes, or something: “If they were really working class guys, they would not CHOOSE to be journeymen pipefitters, given other options.” And then of course there are our students here, studying their way out of the oilfields: the objective is to have a job that isn’t so physically dangerous / carcinogenic / etc. …However: one day I walked into my professional job and a higher ranked colleague said: “I see you are wearing your dyke boots again.” I raised my eyebrows and cleared my throat, but couldn’t give any other response, because that would have been “unprofessional” … although his own statement, of course, had to be taken as a “joke.”
It strikes me that ass-kicking is preferable to both cocksucking and bible-dripping. Just my opinion. Others are free to disagree.
It’s interesting that terms related to violence (such as “ass-kicking”) would be less offensive (and therefore, more acceptable to most United Statians in “polite” society) than terms related to sex (such as “cocksucking”) or religion (such as “Bible-dripping”). Not surprising, I guess. But interesting. Sigh.
Back to the Bonobos (as in Luisa’s comment under your “Remember This?” post of 11/30)…?
I wish!
My preference for ass-kicking is unrelated to the linguistic connotations: rather, I don’t think I would like to suck cock and I am an atheist so ass-kicking seems the best option (for me, at least). I am also not a United Statian and like sex and am never seen in polite society :o)
Well, if dealing with someone offensive, particularly in the kinds of contexts which have been cited so far, and if my three choices are to a) kick ass, b) suck cock, or c) participate in “Bible-dripping,” I’ll choose option a) as well.
Well, gosh! When you put it that way, I’d prefer to kick ass, as well. In the contexts cited. Unless there was a better option…
*giggle*
I still like the Bonobos’ solution, though…