Am I Being Unreasonable?

[stoney321]

Here's how picky I am when it comes to fanfic (or any story, really.) I'm reading along, it's pretty good, not amazing, but good. Nice pacing, characters are spot on, dialog is snappy, then one of the guys (Blaine Anderson, specifically, a 17 year old guy for anyone else who doesn't recognize that name) calls his mother MOMMY.

I ask you. Mommy? I don't like it when my own kids call me mommy, because they're teens. I hate infantilization of language for anyone that isn't, you know, an infant. ETA: Context is HERE. We're talking about a 17 YEAR OLD BOY specifically.

[Poll #1752621]

DID YOU SEE THE CONTEXT I LINKED RIGHT BEFORE THE POLL OR WERE YOU ALL: TICKY BOX! Just checking. ;)

Like when Gwenyth Paltrow won her Oscar in that ill-fitted pink princess dress and thanked her "daddy." No. Daddies, when you're that age, are old men who visit you on the pole and bring you sparkly things.

I CAN'T BE ALONE ON THIS ONE. ...can I?

(Off topic, but the Glee recaps have begun - with cocktail recipes and a drinking game! - and Mel's Bachelorette recap is up as well. That show is CRACK. Whitney Houston crack. And I made a Whitney BOB-BAY! joke in my RHoNJ recap that no one caught and I have a sad.)

Comments

[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

I voted a little strange, but I think it totally depends on the context. Like, in an extreme situation, I think it works. Buffy in The Body being a good example.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

That's why I put that link to the context up there - and I TOTALLY AGREE that in the case of The Body, that's a natural and reasonable (and heartbreaking) response. And seems much more realistic for girls to talk that way, than guys.

For a 17 year old guy to say they can stay at their boyfriend's house for dinner? Weird, imo.

[dovil.livejournal.com]

Oh god, that scene was brilliant, but her using that word was all about her feeling helpless and reverting back to a childlike state because oh dear god her mum was lying there dead. GAH! Did I mention how much I love that whole scene?

If a 17 year old is saying it and it's ooc I would say either the author is unfamiliar with how post-pubescent males interact with their parents, or more likely, is writing a self-insert fic.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

DITTO EVERYTHING HERE.

(I think she's very young and I've noticed that a lot of writers in this fandom write the boys like girls. I mean, true, one of them is pretty flaming, but he's still MALE. The other part of the pairing is old school gentleman, but still a GUY.)

[dovil.livejournal.com]

What do you mean, a lot of writers in THIS fandom, I thought it was pretty much universal? :)

I called my bf's dick Daddy, but that's not gross, that's just super sexay!

/JOKE OMG, JOKE!