It amazes me that you people claim you want to get more women involved in sailing. That you want to get more kids involved in sailing. And yet on this forum I am seeing the F word used more and more.
Why the F--- do you guys do that on a forum that may be read by women and children?
Do you want your young child, who is reading about sailing, to ask you, "What does WTF mean?" Or, "What does F--- mean?"
Or, if they already know that (unfortunately), why would you want to reinforce that as being acceptable?
And, of course, you all must know that many women find the word offensive to us (even though most of us have been forced to become desensitized to it).
Using that word, no matter how you try to disguise it, demeans the sport and demeans you personally. Sailing is not supposed to be a good-old-boys club, but you make it sound like that.
If you guys are all as highly educated as you seem, I'm sure you can come up with some better vocabulary to express your displeasure about things.
