We also set the bar very high for racial, ethnic and sexual slurs.

"HOW many of you have ever witnessed a racial, ethnic, religious or sexual slur?"

The motivation for using a sexual slur is often sexism and/or bias against a sexual orientation or practice.

"Equally disturbing is the fact that abusive language revealed most strikingly in racial, ethnic and sexual slurs."

And forget about ethnic, racial, religious or sexual slurs.

In other words, the proliferation of terms that function as sexual slurs on women's reputation is used as a weapon to keep women in line.

"One of the questions was how often do you hear off-color jokes, sexual, religious slurs, that kind of thing," General Rosa said.

They were beaten with nightsticks and abused with ethnic and sexual slurs, he said.