You’re the one who has tried to make a cause out of it. You are acting as if the term in SIMPLY to swear, and I submit to you that it is to create a VISUAL so strong that it cannot be ignored. It is the creation of a picture and ONE indelible graphic image is worth a thousand NON swearwords. Trust me.
I mean, can you imagine saying “when number two hits the fan”? That is a comical and childish image that doesn’t have nearly the impact.
You really have never read materials from the first 30 or 40 years of this movement when it was mostly male and largely ex-military?
You won’t see this kind of childish writing in those older publications, it was adult to adult, this is teenage childish stuff.