Thursday, August 07, 2008
The potty-mouth leftosphere
The evidence is in, the paper is peer-reviewed, and once again social science has proven what we already knew: That lefty bloggers and their commenters use many more "bad words" than righty bloggers. There is no moral lesson in this -- at least as far as I'm concerned -- and maybe the difference reflects left and right less than traits associated with left and right. I suspect that righty bloggers and their readers are more likely to worry about blowback in their day jobs (many of us on the right are executives or professionals with clients and the like, and have to maintain at least the appearance of propriety), righties may be more likely to have children (except for meeting a payroll, nothing makes one get conservative faster than having a child) and do not want to set a bad example, and righties are (again, on average) more churched-up than their counterparts on the left.
That said, there is at least one righty blog that gives the lefties a run for it, capturing a very large share in one particular word.
5 Comments:
By 
, at
Thu Aug 07, 10:03:00 PM:
Ace has a tough job being the sole right blog tasked with closing the profanity gap.
By 
Fabio, at
Fri Aug 08, 05:22:00 AM:
But Ace is not alone: The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler and The Devil's Kitchen (from UK and more libertarian) lend a serious hand.
By , at
Fri Aug 08, 08:57:00 AM:
Maybe righty bloggers have bigger, you know, vocabularies?
By Andrew Hofer, at
Mon Aug 11, 10:28:00 AM:
Didn't you guys get the memo? If you aren't moved to profanity you aren't paying attention!!
By Andrew Hofer, at
Mon Aug 11, 10:30:00 AM:
..and isn't Atrios proud?
"Notable also in these stats are the liberal blogs Eschaton, Crooks and Liars, and Firedoglake, where profanity is so common you basically cannot take part in the discussion without running into it."
