Wroughtirony posted:

Another reply to this, now that it's been graded:

My professor did pick up on the gender thing, and his question was that since a lot of "coarse language" is gender marked (men generally cuss more than women in the US) did the anonymity of GIP allow for more female Gippers to adopt typically male-coded language, and if so, why?

Without conducting a demographic study of GIP there's no way of knowing the percentage of women. But I would wager that the women vets/servicemembers that do post here are probably influenced more by military culture than anonymity in the way they speak.

More interesting stuff to think about.