Following one thought here - the F-bomb one: I live in a small Texas town - about an hour from Houston. A friend who was teaching with me here got a new job in a town on the outskirts of Houston. She sent a boy to the office for dropping the F-bomb in the hallway and was herself reprimanded - told, "Well, Mrs. Z...., you seem to be the only one having a problem with his language." This was in a MIDDLE SCHOOL. Can you believe? She called her husband that afternoon and told him she was quitting. Many of our teachers were going to these Houston outskirt towns to teach for a few years at the end of their careers in order to increase their retirement pay. Your five highest years salaries are averaged for the retirement formula. She decided it simply wasn't worth it. Right now I know of no one who is doing this - it was a trend for a while, but our standards are just different here - maybe more red of neck, but certainly higher standards.
When my son-in-law was in the Marines and living outside Washington DC I visited as often as I could. After supper we often played games of various sorts and there was often another Marine there as well. One evening my very competitive son-in-law lost a game and said the F-word. I burst into tears - people just don't talk that way around me - and left the room. Everyone scattered basically. I finally came out quietly into the living room and he pointed to their dining set - from IKEA - each chair a different color. He told me the problem was the chair he'd been sitting in - it was the black one - said that I was the only one strong enough to sit in that chair and from now on when we played games I would sit there. We got back to our game. They've been married over 10 years now and he has never spoken an ugly word in my presence again - though he jokes once in a while about "the black chair". I did sit there every time we were together until they moved up to a larger dining set.
Not sure what my point is, but things just don't have to be the way they are and those of us left who uphold what is right and respectable just need to keep on keeping on. So there!