Wwanderer
Kids, don't try this at home!
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"that chick's breasts are so droopy, her nipples dragged on the floor when she walked down the hall."
Wow, what powerful imagery; I can almost see that in my mind. Also, great use of hyperbole!!!
I see that not particularly as an insult, but making a point with effective figurative language. I'd love to see that in a review. It is language that comes alive in the reader's mind.
I think we all get it that you do not find such mocking hyperbole insulting. Being a nice person, you don’t intend to insult or hurt other people and so wouldn’t use such language if you thought it offensive. But by now you presumably get that other people do feel insulted and hurt when they read such things, regardless of how you perceive them. Right?
The question is how you (you personally and others) are going to respond to the *fact* that your prose style is offending them and, in some cases, making them feel very bad indeed. As far as I can see your answer is to tell them, in effect, “Too bad. That's life. Just suck it up and deal.” Fwiiw, that is a not so nice or classy imo, and if you feel criticized, that is the reason (at least in my case), not that you unintentionally insulted and hurt people. We all do such things unintentionally at times, but many people are willing to try to avoid doing so to the extent possible.
"her breasts aren't really that firm in my opinion"
Boring as hell! And who wants to read boring reviews? We have quite a few talented writers here on TAG. It would truly be a shame to castrate them with politically correct language.
Since you aren’t doing p4p these days, I can see why you might want reviews to be as entertaining as possible, but of course their main purpose is not to be fun reads but to convey accurate information to potential customers of the SW being reviewed. In this regard hyperbole and other forms of humor tend to be counterproductive. In @meiji 's examples it is pretty much impossible to get any meaningful impression of the firmness of the woman’s breasts from the entertaining/insulting version because it is so exaggerated. The "boring" version, however, actually contains useful information.
-Ww