Ironic Comment

[pink_silk_glove]

I sure got a kick out of this one.

this was so awful i’m not even bothering completing it. i’m so tired of y’all writing Black characters as every stereotype you’ve ever seen and thinking that’s okay.

 

[lovecraft68]

I'm waiting to get a kick out of the inevitable "well, you really shouldn't write as a diverse person if you're not one" comments that will be posted here by people who call themselves authors, but allow BS narratives to control their 'creativity'

It shows how 'progressives' have regressed society, because I didn't see comments like this years ago.

In 2014 I wrote a story from the POV of black female domme raised in a very poor and ultra fire and brimstone religious part of the south.

Oh, the sin of a white male non believer from the East Coast trying to test themselves by writing out of their box! Shame.

If you want to stick to stories about black folks written only by black folks welcome back to the age of segregation...and racism.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

If you want to stick to stories about black folks written only by black folks welcome back to the age of segregation...and racism.

You're not wrong.

 

[ronde]

I doubt it's possible to write anything about anything these days without "offending" someone. People have become so sensitized to certain words that they replace the real meaning of the word with their "new and correct" meaning.

As for that comment about not reading the story all the way through, how did the reader know what you did with the stereotype that angered him?

I once got a comment on a story about "preaching to the reader". The story did include religion, but my character was questioning what he'd always been taught because of what he'd experienced during the Civil War, not trying to convince the reader about any religious principle. I don't think the reader actually finished the story or he or she would have seen that.

 

[SimonDoom]

I'm waiting to get a kick out of the inevitable "well, you really shouldn't write as a diverse person if you're not one" comments that will be posted here by people who call themselves authors, but allow BS narratives to control their 'creativity'

It shows how 'progressives' have regressed society, because I didn't see comments like this years ago.

In 2014 I wrote a story from the POV of black female domme raised in a very poor and ultra fire and brimstone religious part of the south.

Oh, the sin of a white male non believer from the East Coast trying to test themselves by writing out of their box! Shame.

If you want to stick to stories about black folks written only by black folks welcome back to the age of segregation...and racism.

I don't agree with that attitude any more than you do, but I don't see a lot of it in this forum. Let's be careful not to wed ourselves to narratives about foolishness that aren't actually real.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

I sure got a kick out of this one.

What a maroon...

 

[THBGato]

I write Black, White, Asian, Gitana characters yet clearly not all of those categories apply to me.

My point is one can do so and yet avoid stereotypes: that's the "progressive" point of view as I understand it - go ahead and write those characters, but avoid the tropes that feed into racist narratives. (Note, I'm not saying I agree with the charge laid against the OP that their character was a stereotype. I'm just disagreeing that the comment implies only black writers can write black characters.)

 

[MyBareTorso]

I'm a white Aussie currently writing a story told from the point of view of an African American woman. It's really turning me on, even though it's maybe not authentic etc. To be honest, that is really not of concern to me. We are writing here anonymously for the entertainment of ourselves and others for free. In my mind anyway, that basically allows me to write whatever I want, as long as it falls within Literotica's publishing guidelines, and is something I can live with. On Literotica, I do not feel constrained by "real world" concepts of authenticity and literary credibility. I write sexual fantasies in whatever voice turns me on at the time.

 

[lovecraft68]

I'm a white Aussie currently writing a story told from the point of view of an African American woman. It's really turning me on, even though it's maybe not authentic etc. To be honest, that is really not of concern to me. We are writing here anonymously for the entertainment of ourselves and others for free. In my mind anyway, that basically allows me to write whatever I want, as long as it falls within Literotica's publishing guidelines, and is something I can live with. On Literotica, I do not feel constrained by "real world" concepts of authenticity and literary credibility. I write sexual fantasies in whatever voice turns me on at the time.

So are you saying if you were a mainstream author you'd let this woke nonsense stop you from writing what you want?

 

[lovecraft68]

I don't agree with that attitude any more than you do, but I don't see a lot of it in this forum. Let's be careful not to wed ourselves to narratives about foolishness that aren't actually real.

Depends what the crowd is at the time, one of that type isn't here for the time being, but there's others, including your conceited bromance partner from down under. I've seen it and if you haven't, that's fine. But there's enough veiled shots fired in this forum towards people who don't adhere to certain narratives that I don't mind doing the same.

Aside from you and I, and Chloe, most here will avoid 'looking bad" to certain narratives.

I've had this debate in person with two young people at a con when one of them was flipping through one of my books and spotted one of my characters using a slur. It was a good conversation, they weren't the screecy types you see on tic tok or Lit's political board, they were open to a good discussion which we had about creativity vs censorship, racism etc. I don't know that I got them completely on my side, but they left with things to think about and were fine with that outcome.

That conversation could not happen here, at least not in the open, especially when you have a site who has two mods (Not the AH mod BTW) that do nothing but run around and attack people over politics.

 

[MyBareTorso]

So are you saying if you were a mainstream author you'd let this woke nonsense stop you from writing what you want?

Probably not, but I'd likely be at least a little more affected or concerned about it, and the ramifications. I'm not saying it's right, mind you, but in the "real world" there are consequences that I don't think apply to me here on Literotica.

 

[TheLobster]

I've seen it and if you haven't, that's fine. But there's enough veiled shots fired in this forum towards people who don't adhere to certain narratives that I don't mind doing the same.

There is a whole nearby thread on a very related topic. It's full of "suggestions" on how one should steer clear of certain words, that would help immensely in fleshing out negative traits of unsavory characters, just because it might make the author "look bad" in the eyes of overly sensitive readers. It's ridiculous almost from top to bottom, and a good example of the kind of attitude you are talking about here.