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Professional = something you'd say in front of your clients / customers / potential employers etc.

I respectfully disagree that you believe that's the definition. The presenter gave this talk and put it on the internet, with what I can only presume is her actual name. So I'd submit that she said things she has no problem with her clients/customers/employers seeing or hearing.

My guess is that when you use the word professional you mean things that you would say in front of your clients/customers/employers, and that's what irks me about the term.

Why should that have anything to do with anything we do when not in front of them?

What gives you the impression that the things you do and say in public are not in front of them?

If we're taking that definition, fair enough, but I don't think most of us would accept self-censorship in any public forum on the off chance that a client or customer might see it.

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