Home Artists Posts Import Register

Content

For a long while, I've been wrestling with something. 

You know how I do not like to hold back and I grew up using the "R" word as just part of my vernacular. It was always a harsh word but I am used to using it as such but in common language. Times have definitely changed since I was younger and I'm not sure how taboo this word is now.

I somehow get the feeling that people are EXTREMELY offended by it like the "N" word was when I was young. One could NEVER use THAT word even though the older generation used it quite often. Not even in a derogatory sense.  Just a description for a black person. I remember how the old guys who used it totally offended me!

How do you guys feel when I use the "R" word? Is it really SUPER offensive or should I use more mild terms like "assault", "attack" and "violated"?

Language is so retarded!  Oops!  Another word that is now totally offensive!  Lol.

Comments

Tinhy

That last one, we apparently supposed to use “Learning Deficient”. An LD. Does not have the same effect lol.

Anonymous

It's pretty unmistakable with the R word, in a sexual encounter there is at least one person who does not want to be a participant. With Lorna however, she may not anticipate a sexual encounter, but she's never really opposed to it. Just my take on it and I'm willing to be wrong.

sinope

Totally. However, Holly is usually not a consenual participant and there are sometimes I want to use it in a way like “Daddy says I shouldn’t dress like this because I might get…”

sinope

Is that the word? I thought “special needs” or “specially gifted”.

Anonymous

It's difficult. It should be easier with a group who have gathered around the idea that fantasies can take a turn to the dark. But even within a such a group tastes and sensitivities vary. At the end of the day, if one is writing or drawing fictional tales of abuse then why not use honest language to describe the work. It's almost better in that viewers cannot lie to ourselves about how dark those fantasies are.

Anonymous

I must have missed any of the illustrations where you have used the R word, but I've always looked at your work as more of an alternative universe where it simply doesn't exist. Lorna and the other women are active participants and enjoy being sexual, but are sometimes overwhelmed by all the over the top male lust that is focused on them. Rape is traumatizing, but they aren't traumatized by any of the sex they have.

Anonymous

As long as the "R" word is not Republican its OK because I am old and not easily offended.

RH

Being PC is not much of a concern to me. But covering things up by using words to soften/hide the truth is a concern to me. Rape is a horrible thing, calling it something else to be PC is IMHO almost like condoning rape. Say it like it is.

fannum

Ravish, defile, violate ... but when they use fuck, anal, blow and the litany of LGBTQ terms on prime time broadcasts, you're likely being just to sensitive ... though, I for one, appreciate that.

Whomp

I don't care if you use the r word

sinope

I’ve written it in and then back tracked and replaced the word. Sometimes I just black it out. I don’t like doing that. Rape in real life is almost worse then murder but there’s a rape fantasy that both men and women have (and is surprisingly common). There’s a helplessness and enjoyment in being overpowered that some women enjoy but so long as she never feels she’s in peril. I think you nailed it on the head regarding trauma being the key difference.

sinope

I guess at the end I have to be careful. Patreon is a little sensitive if the girl is not enjoying it and is traumatized. I think it’s such hypocrisy that women can be gruesomely tortured, mutilated and murdered in horror films and you can casually watch those movies on Amazon Prime and Netflix but if she is raped it is a total no-no (apart from the series “I spit on your grave”. That seems to be okay because she gets revenge afterwards?).

sinope

Me as well but I just want to make sure I’m not crossing any lines. Language always changes and words which used to be okay to use twenty years ago are absolutely forbidden now.

JVR

I'm sick of all this Woke / PC crap. Keep using it.

Anonymous

I don't mind, but seems like most sites use"rough" now, which is a broad term for many situations.

sinope

Yeah, I like the comics being fun and wacky but I don’t want to lose the edginess.

Patrick Miller

The word itself is cause for some to experience PTSD from their own experience with the action, which is why they don't care for it. With the thousands of other words with similar meaning, I see no reason to continue using it, however it's your art and comic, so if you see no reason to stop, they keep using it. I simply think there's more to this language we speak that too many people are to ignorant or stubborn (or both) to use.

sinope

I’ve gotten a comment how my drawings and stories are triggering for them. I want to be sensitive but at the same times roll my eyes at why they are looking at them. I guess you’re right in a way. I never grew up with the new gems and they don’t have any meaning to me. Oh well. I think I’ll try to learn the new words or use the harsher ones sparingly.

Patrick Miller

Like I said, there can be a happy medium where your point gets across and they don't complain. However, also like I said, it's your art. They can take it or leave it. I'm very vanilla so the big dudes having their way with the tiny gals ain't my thing, but I love the solo or girl-on-girl stuff you do so much I stick around. We each have our own tastes and that's what makes this world so diverse.