This comment....seriously?

[lovecraft68]

Like everyone else I've had comments run the gamut here. Effusively glowing to viciously abusive. I've had people tell their own fantasies and 'real life' experiences, had people complain about the weirdest things from character name to dress color etc...

This one from sometime last night killed me.

by Anonymous
02/12/16
Great Story!

This was a great, completely believeable story with hot sex and a happy ending. It could benefit from more careful editing. The use of the profane word "Goddamn" added nothing to the story, but for me detracted from it.

You're on an erotica site. One that contains incest and rape fantasies as well as every dirty filthy kink imaginable and the word goddamn offends you?

Also for the story in question, its okay they said, fuck, cock, tits, pussy, fucking and just fine that there were blow jobs and explicit sex, but...

The profane word goddamn is what was offensive.

Wow, is all I have to that one.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Maybe it was the fact that Goddamn, should be God damn is what turned him off. There are spelling Nazi's who even read our stuff.

 

[sr71plt]

Obviously a personal hangup to be ignored because there are hundreds of thousands readers here, all with individual word hangups.

I rate it with the frequent "what I like/don't like" threads we get on the forum. "Well, OK, that's your problem that you could just keep to yourself because I didn't write it to please you specifically."

 

[lovecraft68]

Obviously a personal hangup to be ignored because there are hundreds of thousands readers here, all with individual word hangups.

I rate it with the frequent "what I like/don't like" threads we get on the forum. "Well, OK, that's your problem that you could just keep to yourself because I didn't write it to please you specifically."

Yeah, I'm not giving it any real credence, it just amazed me that someone is 'righteous' enough to be offended at taking the lord's name in vain, but is reading a pornogrpahic website.

Also if you pop back to this is goddamn one or two words? Or can it be used both ways? Zeb has me thinking now....

 

[litfan10]

Goldarnit can't you carefully edit your work so it takes into account every readers' preferences??????? Your work would benefit from this........

 

[sr71plt]

Also if you pop back to this is goddamn one or two words? Or can it be used both ways? Zeb has me thinking now....

Would you believe it's in Websters? goddamn/Goddamn (with "goddam" as a secondary spelling, but publishers go with the first spelling given). I'd say that "god damn" would be fine too if you wanted the two words pronounced separately with either equal emphasis or emphasis on the "damn."

An up-in-the-air issue is whether it should be capitalized or not. When I use it as a swear word, I usually don't cap the "god," to make clear that it's just a traditional swear word and not really invoking anyone's God in any way.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Fuck readers

 

[TxRad]

Years ago i had one reader who followed me around the story lists for several months. His pet peeve was the cuss word Damn. He was bound and determined that it was spelled dam, like what holds a lake back. I think he left comments on at least a dozen stories. I left them up. Several other readers went WTF?

 

[lovecraft68]

Years ago i had one reader who followed me around the story lists for several months. His pet peeve was the cuss word Damn. He was bound and determined that it was spelled dam, like what holds a lake back. I think he left comments on at least a dozen stories. I left them up. Several other readers went WTF?

When I was a kid my sister and I would take turns reading horror stories to each other, she's reading and she says "dam-nah"

I said what word is that? She shows me. It's Damn, she is saying the N like its a second word.

 

[beachbum1958]

UK TV programme 'Room 101', with Sanjeev Baskar reading 'The Owl & The Pussycat' as it's spelled to show why pointless silent letters in the English language need to go in Room 101 forever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj7RzVxe764

 

[FantasyXY]

Fuck God Damn

That's funny. The last comment I got was almost the opposite. In one short incomplete sentence Mr Anonymous wrote; bitch, cunt, fuck (twice), ass, and ass hole (twice). And yeah, he spelled "asshole" as "ass hole"... both times. He actually wrote a sentence with more swear words than regular words.

What a goddamn asshole? I mean ass hole. I mean... What the fuck do I mean? God damn if I know. Or is it god damned? Dammed? Dammit now I'm all messed up! Is it damned or dammed? Wait... Should I have said, damn it instead of dammit?... Fuck! I give up.

BTW - all of the above passes spell check... spellcheck... spellchecks... FUCK!

 

[Bramblethorn]

Jemaine Clement (NZ film/TV guy) made a comedy-horror vampire film, "What We Do In The Shadows". Somebody wrote to complain that they wanted to take their 11-year-old to see it, but they couldn't because it had a "fuck" in it.

Apparently vampires murdering people for food and spraying blood wall-to-wall wasn't an issue, though.

 

[litfan10]

Jemaine Clement (NZ film/TV guy) made a comedy-horror vampire film, "What We Do In The Shadows". Somebody wrote to complain that they wanted to take their 11-year-old to see it, but they couldn't because it had a "fuck" in it.

Apparently vampires murdering people for food and spraying blood wall-to-wall wasn't an issue, though.

When the Japanese violent/sex anime L.A. Blue Girl was first packaged for the US the Japanese version featured the main character exposed with her school girl uniform ripped off by tentacles. The US producers found this objectionable so they painted her nude body with deep red to simulate blood. That was acceptable.

 

[someoneyouknow]

UK TV programme 'Room 101', with Sanjeev Baskar reading 'The Owl & The Pussycat' as it's spelled to show why pointless silent letters in the English language need to go in Room 101 forever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj7RzVxe764

English is not the only language with silent letters in words or words which don't sound the way they are spelled.

Take the japanese word kawaii. I had always thought it was pronounced similar to kawhy. Instead, after listening to the Mutant Monster song, Kawaii Dekeja Irarenai, it is pronounced similar to Hawaii (ka wah ee) and Irarenai has an 'e' sound on the end of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdQcEl5Axmg

 

[ishtat]

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The profane word goddamn is what was offensive.

Wow, is all I have to that one.

Just so long as you do not write 'Damn god', or even worse 'Damn God.'

 

[oggbashan]

The use of the profane word "Goddamn" added nothing to the story, but for me detracted from it.

...

At the time of Joan of Arc, the French referred to all English soldiers as "Goddams" because the French thought English soldiers swore too much and were Godless heathens.

Until the 1904 Entente Cordiale, the French still thought English troops were Godless heathens who swore too much.

After 1904, they didn't change their minds, they just stopped saying it out loud.

 

[NotWise]

Sounds like a good Christian response, maybe from the Bible Belt. That is, it makes hardly any sense at all.

There's a commandment against taking His name in vain. No commandment against reading and enjoying gooey, incest-ridden smut.

 

[rjordan]

When I was a kid my sister and I would take turns reading horror stories to each other, she's reading and she says "dam-nah"

I said what word is that? She shows me. It's Damn, she is saying the N like its a second word.

That's just dum-bah.

rj

 

[lovecraft68]

That's just dum-bah.

rj

Everyone in my family loves my sister to death, you'll never meet a sweeter woman. But to a person we have all agreed. It's a good thing for her she was made pretty cause...

 

[MagicaPractica]

People are fascinating. I've known several who were positive they would be saved because of their faith when the Rapture came. It didn't seem to matter that they were in the midst of extramarital affairs.

 

[lovecraft68]

People are fascinating. I've known several who were positive they would be saved because of their faith when the Rapture came. It didn't seem to matter that they were in the midst of extramarital affairs.

Typical sin six days a week then say sorry on Sunday and sin for six more.

I just play it straight and sin 24/7

 

[loquere]

Religion

 

[MagicaPractica]

Typical sin six days a week then say sorry on Sunday and sin for six more.

I just play it straight and sin 24/7

I try to live by the "An' it hurt none, do as ye will" but that not hurting others is a damn sight harder than I thought it would be.

 

[Bramblethorn]

People are fascinating. I've known several who were positive they would be saved because of their faith when the Rapture came. It didn't seem to matter that they were in the midst of extramarital affairs.

If I recall correctly (and I may not), there was a medieval heresy that encouraged believers to sin as much as possible: God forgives all sins, so the more your sins, the greater and more meaningful God's bounty.

I've heard a lot of rationalisations in my time, but that was one of the best.

 

[HandsInTheDark]

it just amazed me that someone is 'righteous' enough to be offended at taking the lord's name in vain, but is reading a pornogrpahic website.

Some people don't find sex obscene or offensive, but do think God should be treated respectfully, if not reverently. I'm surprised that you (or anyone) is amazed by this, but whatever. Personally, I avoid God or goddamn in my stories for precisely this reason. Not that I'd expect anyone else to, and it's hard to imagine commenting on anyone's use of it in a story here. But I at least get why for some people it's a thing.

Readers comment on so many bizarre and incomprehensible things that someone with a vague;y comprehensible viewpoint at all doesn't seem worth grumping about. Better than some of the weird emails I've gotten.Someone accused me of basing a story on a TV show because three of the character names I'd chosen matched major characters in the show. (I don't want television and had never heard of the show.)