I found this piece extremely interesting, although I must say I do not agree with some statements made by John Galt. I don't swear much either, unless a crazy driver cuts in front of me and I cannot control myself. The way younger Nepali people talk has also raised my eyebrows. It is an even bigger offense if it comes from a female, because, well, to be frank, our society is patriarchal. Maybe that's what offends me. Women swearing and talking about sex does leave a bad taste in my mouth. I guess there is a "generation gap" that may cause me to think this way. As we all know, people 25 and under are part of generation Y. It may just be that, since you and I are older, we fail to understand these younger folks? I specifically remember that back when I was in high-school, my friends (all men) swore a lot. Could it be that this problem you had stems from the fact that the perpetrator was a female? I do know that you have included men in your piece above. I am not passing any judgments on why you felt the way you did. Having said that, to many people , your characterization of hiphop as a paean to "hustle, muder and misogyny" may be quite offensive. I have myself grown out of hiphop and I do not listen to it anymore. I used to listen to hiphop when I was a kid. I think most hiphop fans are younger people. I don't listen to hiphop anymore as I have grown older and more mature. What about people like ice cube, and other hiphop artists of the early 90's who did so much to bring police brutality and other forms of institutionalized racism to the fore? After the Rodney King beating, for example, hiphop artists started rapping about injustices meted out to blacks. By the way, hiphop arose in the streets of New York. To this day, if you don't have "street credibility", your chances of becoming a successful hiphop artist is rather slim. So what's the point in all of this? The point is that the way hiphop artists rap(I am talking about all the dirty talk) is very much the norm among America' poor--the little guys if you prefer. If hiphop is not your cup of tea, then you of course have the prerogative to ignore it. However, please do not paint hiphop with a broad brush, because to every gangsta rapper out there, there is another rapper who raps about institutionalized discrimination, police brutality, and the like--topics that blacks very much empathize with. These things have happened in America in the past. Your complaint is directed at only one segment of hiphop: gangsta rap, which one may even say is extinct today. 50 cent for example isn't a gangsta rapper in my humble opinion. He sounds more like a party rapper. Gangsta rap glamorizes murder, robbery, rape, etc, and it may as well have had a negative impact on the black community. This is one point I disagree with you.