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Originally Posted by Eastshire
I file hell as a swear word under "Fight the battles you can win." Is it appropriate? No. Will I get anywhere by calling it? No. Save your ammunition for when you can make it count. Hell as a swear word is simple not a place to make a stand.
You will have a hard time making even harder words like (female dog) stick as a swear word. Fight the battles you can win.
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I have always looked at it, as in the black-and-white thing, as "I'm going to win anyway" - what I decide is what sticks. If I T up a coach, he can't appeal it. He can complain, and if I do it in a wrong way several times, I might not get games again in that area/league/etc. But in the end, he doesn't get to make the decision - I do. I would have no trouble getting either of them to stick. And I would rather choose the right thing to do, rather than the thing that is the easiest.
I had a player in soccer that I yellow carded for yelling "Jesus Christ" after missing a goal. The coach complained. I asked over a dozen soccer officials in the next several weeks, and they all agreed it was the right decision - so did our board when I asked them. The coach's theory was that it wasn't offensive to everyone - I said "had he screamed Allah, I wouldn't have taken offense at it - but I would have carded him the same, had he said it the same way, because it is inappropriate for a high school player to say that kind of thing".