I think the vulgarity of it shouldn't have been directed at anyone.

Passionless is vulgar ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")

The use of a two syllable vulgarity by the chairman was rather ambitious,

Vulgarity is the rich man's modest contribution to democracy.

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.