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Is self-parody acceptable and non-offensive?

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krystalg
Smut-slinging slut
I have this really silly idea of parodying myself in a story as a vapid bimbo who is totally unaware of the sexual connotations of her words and actions. While I think that it would be lots of fun to satire myself, I'm concerned that some people might take offense at a main character that is reduced to the worst tropes and most banal stereotypes and not see the humor in it the way I do. What are your thoughts?
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WellMadeMale
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Type it up and show us what you've created.

You can further enlighten your audience by including parody in your tag line to hopefully lighten any possible hostilities or butt-hurt.

I always try to scope out the tags which authors include, so I have some pre-knowledge of what I'm about to spend some time with.
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Ensorceled
Easily amused
Make her a vapid bimbo with positive qualities that allows the reader to love her and embrace her bimbosity. Or make her look better than the men around her.

I think you could make a bimbo a sympathetic character easily. Nothing wrong with bimbos or the bimbo-adjacent. smile

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kistinspencil
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Quote by krystalg
... people might take offense at a main character that is reduced to the worst tropes and most banal stereotypes...


Some writers here have been doing that for years and racking up reads in the tens of thousands. I suspect very few of them were conceived as satire. Write it up and send it in.
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Quote by krystalg
I have this really silly idea of parodying myself in a story as a vapid bimbo who is totally unaware of the sexual connotations of her words and actions. While I think that it would be lots of fun to satire myself, I'm concerned that some people might take offense at a main character that is reduced to the worst tropes and most banal stereotypes and not see the humor in it the way I do. What are your thoughts?




Show us the goods.

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If they don't think it's wack and it doesn't break any lush rules then you're golden.

I am looking forward to reading such art.
krystalg
Smut-slinging slut
Thank you so much everyone. The support and wisdom is appreciated. I feel quite honored that the responses here include people whose works I read and study. Your answers also showed me that I need to add a little more depth to my self-parodied protagonist, as I was solely concentrating on the air-headed bimbo aspect and naught else. Sadly, it took only a tiny nudge to alter "me" into such a character!

If you would, please, here's a snippet of introductory exposition:
. Before I even talk about how lucky I am to be with my boyfriend, can I, like, clear the air a bit first? Everyone always makes these totally false assumptions about me, so I want to set the record straight.

I am not a hobbit, I am not the famous model that everyone mistakes me for, I am not an interior designer, and I am a natural redhead.

I don’t know why, but most other girls compare me to a hobbit. This happens all the time, especially when they’re around their boyfriends. I guess they want to show him that they’re into the same things he is. I’ll be talking for a minute and she’ll say, “You are such a Bimbo!”

I know, right? First off, that Bimbo Baggins character is a guy and I’m obviously a girl! Secondly, while I am short, I’m not that short. I don’t have hairy feet and Bimbo isn’t a redhead. I just don’t know why all other girls see me and are reminded of that Bimbo Hobbit guy.

But at least I know that I’m super-hot! Everybody thinks that I work for the top modeling agency in the nation. They look at me and say, “You are, like, oh my God, totally a Valley Girl.”

I mean, like wow! Everyone that sees me is just so blown away at how sexy I am that they automatically think that I work for the Valley Girl Modeling Agency. I’m honest with them, though. I thank them for the compliment but tell them that while I love posing for pictures, I’m not a model.

For some reason, and I don’t know why, a lot of guys just look at me and think that I’m an interior designer. Guys are way more into decorating than you might think. Hardly a day goes by that some guy doesn’t look at me and say something like, “Hey, Red, does the carpet match the drapes?”

Well, duh! Of course they match, how else can you coordinate with the sofa?


To me, I think this is hilarious because I'm just lampooning myself and subtracting at least 3-4 points off my IQ.
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TroublesomeBard
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Quote by krystalg


To me, I think this is hilarious because I'm just lampooning myself and subtracting at least 3-4 points off my IQ.

Yup, that got a good laugh out of me. For the rest I regularly indulge in self deprecating humor. Hell, in a competition entry for this very site I wrote:

Quote by TroublesomeBard from the story Emperor Thrinklebopple Takes An Empress, and They Have Sex, which you should totally go read.


“hit a moron with a stick” program, where specially designated individuals were allowed to hit people with sticks if that person was doing something incredibly stupid. This might include writing a piece of erotic fiction for a contest the author knows he will not win, staring a man named Wallace Thrinklebopple who declares himself emperor of the United States and then proceeds to make everything better. That is definitely a hit with stick idea.

I think there's only something wrong with it if it's not funny.