No this has not happened yet, but if it did, would it bother you? Why? Doom is a bad guy, he's an evil tyrant of an oppressed nation who has committed genocide and other humans rights violations. Recently he attained god like power and did worse. Is petty racism really beyond this guy? We're supposed to hate him right? But ok, Doom comes from a campy pseudo-Shakespearean school of villainy, he's all big speeches and grand schemes. He monologues and talks in platitudes and philosophical statements, occasionally screaming RIICHHAARRDDS!!! at no one in particular. Using the N word is too low class for him. At best he'd say, "Man of inferior genes" or something. Ok, lets have a common street thug call Luke the N word, "get that n***" or some such, makes it feel real and gritty right? Or does it feel too real? There are folks who go through life hearing shit like that everyday, do they need it in their fun, fantasy, escapist comic books too?
This topic comes on the heels of a discussion we are having in the CYBERPUNK 2077 thread, specifically your partner calling some thug a "pussy", a gendered insult meant to imply someone is weak and womanly, as if they were the same thing. This partner of yours despite being a "friend" in the game is very much a low life thug and their environment is the sort of ugly, crime ridden ghetto common in Cyberpunk fiction. Would it make sense for the hero to stop the friend and admonish him for using such language? Would the protagonist (a woman herself) really care when their primary concern is survival? I mean she has probably heard a lot worse and as a criminal herself done a lot worse. Would someone gleefully shooting and chopping apart criminals really care about their buddy using what is honestly a playground insult these days? Should they? Perhaps the friend does it only to look tough and runs a PRO LGBT Feminist blog on the side, would it make sense for the character?
And lets say we did stop using such bad words in our fiction, would it change anything?
Does our media reflect the kind of things we say and do in our lives or is it the other way around?
We could always use made up words, but they always end up feeling silly and take you out of it.
Saying frack instead of fuck makes you sound like Ned Flanders trying to sound tough.
In what cases are real world insults and language ok to use and in what cases should they be avoided?
Is it okay for a villain to call a Transgender superhero, "a trap"? I mean we are supposed to hate the villains right?
Or does that become too gross and real, takes the fun out of it?
This topic comes on the heels of a discussion we are having in the CYBERPUNK 2077 thread, specifically your partner calling some thug a "pussy", a gendered insult meant to imply someone is weak and womanly, as if they were the same thing. This partner of yours despite being a "friend" in the game is very much a low life thug and their environment is the sort of ugly, crime ridden ghetto common in Cyberpunk fiction. Would it make sense for the hero to stop the friend and admonish him for using such language? Would the protagonist (a woman herself) really care when their primary concern is survival? I mean she has probably heard a lot worse and as a criminal herself done a lot worse. Would someone gleefully shooting and chopping apart criminals really care about their buddy using what is honestly a playground insult these days? Should they? Perhaps the friend does it only to look tough and runs a PRO LGBT Feminist blog on the side, would it make sense for the character?
And lets say we did stop using such bad words in our fiction, would it change anything?
Does our media reflect the kind of things we say and do in our lives or is it the other way around?
We could always use made up words, but they always end up feeling silly and take you out of it.
Saying frack instead of fuck makes you sound like Ned Flanders trying to sound tough.
In what cases are real world insults and language ok to use and in what cases should they be avoided?
Is it okay for a villain to call a Transgender superhero, "a trap"? I mean we are supposed to hate the villains right?
Or does that become too gross and real, takes the fun out of it?
