N-Word Privileges/Playing With

Basic Trope: Members of a group believe they, and only they, can use insulting epithets about their group.

• Straight:Alice, a woman, can use sexist terms about women while Bob cannot.
• Averted:Alice believes that such terms are insulting no matter who uses them.
• Deconstructed: Alice, believing in this trope, uses these terms, but finds out that Bob and Claire disagree.
  • Reconstructed: Alice makes an effort to change the meaning of the word through her use of it so that it is no longer a slur.
• Lampshaded: "Why is it okay for Alice to say it but not okay when Bob says it?"
• Justified: Alice uses the term playfully and somewhat sarcastically, whereas Bob uses it with hatred and contempt.
• Exaggerated: Alice can use any discriminatory epithets about any group, regardless of whether she's "one of them" or not.
• Subverted: Alice uses a sexist term about women, and her girlfriends look at her with shock.
• Double Subverted: But she refers to a mutual enemy as a bitch, and no one questions her moral fiber.
• Inverted: Bob can use sexist terms about women, while Alice cannot.

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