British Women and Profanity

[jimmy olsen]

I don't know if it's just selection bias in who comes to work in Korea, but I've met dozens of twenty-something Brits (almost all English) and Irish and a distinct pattern has emerged.

The women swear like sailors, while the men, though they have accents just as thick and charmingly quaint vocabularies, almost never swear. What gives? 

[Razgovory]

Also the women are larger then the men.  And uglier.

[jimmy olsen]

Also the women are larger then the men.  And uglier.

Not true.

[Razgovory]

Also the women are larger then the men.  And uglier.

Not true.

It is also possible that  there is only one British gender.  And what you are seeing are just more feminine males.

[mongers]

I don't know if it's just selection bias in who comes to work in Korea, but I've met dozens of twenty-something Brits (almost all English) and Irish and a distinct pattern has emerged.

The women swear like sailors, while the men, though they have accents just as thick and charmingly quaint vocabularies, almost never swear. What gives? 

You're probably encountering middle class women and men. 
I've only ever encounter 1.5 English middle class women who don't swear, whereas I've know quite a few welsh and Scotish women who won't and a surprising number of working class men who don't.

Of course many middle class English men swear, in an effort to fit in, which never works.

And it's all a question of swings and roundabouts, as I've worked with plenty of men from the north-east, whose every third word is fuckin', but it's just a verbal punctuation/tic which has no meaning or emphasis at all.

[CountDeMoney]

Of course many middle class English men swear, in an effort to fit in, which never works.

It would help if they used proper profanity.  "Bugger all"?  C'mon, man.

[Eddie Teach]

Wot's your bloody beef with bugger? 

[CountDeMoney]

Sod off.

[Richard Hakluyt]

What a load of old cobblers.

[Brazen]

The women swear like sailors, while the men, though they have accents just as thick and charmingly quaint vocabularies, almost never swear. What gives? 

The men are attempting to endear themselves with the locals by giving an impression of politeness in the hope of getting laid.

The women have no chance of getting laid by either the locals or their fellow tourists so don't bloody bother.

[Zanza]

The women have no chance of getting laid by either the locals or their fellow tourists

[Caliga]

What a load of old cobblers.

SPEAK ENGLISH PLZ 

[Josquius]

Can't say I've ever noticed this.
I'd guess teaching in Asia tends to attract the nicer, nerdier brand of male (i.e. not too into swearing) whilst it attracts the adventurous, slightly crazy, brand of female.

[Darth Wagtaros]

What a load of old cobblers.

Too right.  These tossers and rotters are all at sixes and sevens.

[Tonitrus]

The women have no chance of getting laid by either the locals or their fellow tourists

Indeed, ALL women have a chance of getting laid.  Unlike the reverse...there is always some guy who will pick up what ever is being put out there.