History PlayingWith / NWordPrivileges

* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is a member of [[TwoferTokenMinority every minority imaginable]], and she is a SirSwearsALot who uses language that consists almost entirely of slurs and insults directed towards those minorities, yet no one takes offense at this.

* '''Inverted''':
** [[HeManWomanHater Bob and Dave can use sexist terms about women]], while Alice and Claire cannot. Likewise, Claire and Dave can use racist terms about black people, while AliceAndBob cannot.

** Dave, [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy the blackest white guy]] and/or OneOfTheGirls, feels alienated because he is the only one in the group who can't use the derogatory words for fun like his friends do.

** Dave, [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy the blackest white guy]] and/or OneOfTheGirls, feels alienated because he is only one in the group who can't use the derogatory words for fun like his friends do.

* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice ''doesn't even know she's doing anything wrong'', no matter how many times Bob or anyone else may point it out.

* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is a member of [[TwoferTokenMinority every minority imaginable]], and her language consists almost entirely of slurs and insults directed towards those minorities, yet no one takes offense at this.

** Bob gets away with using slurs many times without objection to him but only when [[MeanCharacterNiceActor playing the sort of despicable character he is type cast as]] on the grounds of necessity in portrayal of issues. His works may still be declared inappropriate in some contexts but neither he nor them are called wrong per se.

** [[HeManWomanHater Bob and Dave can use sexist terms about women]], while Alice and Claire cannot. Likewise Claire and Dave can use racist terms about black people, while AliceAndBob cannot.

** Alice uses [[CountryMatters a sexist term about women]], and her girlfriends look at her with shock.

** But she refers to a mutual enemy as a bitch, and no one questions her moral fibre.

* '''Invoked''': Alice and the other female characters agree that it's okay for women (but not men) to make sexist remarks about women, seeing as how "it's not a crime if the victim consents". Same goes for racial slurs.
* '''Exploited''': Alice uses her ethnicity and gender to throw around offensive terms with carefree abandon, in the hope that it will cause actual psychological damage on Claire, with whom she has a rivalry.

** Bob gets away with using slurs many times without objection to him but only when [[MeanCharacterNiceActor playing the sort of despicable character he is type cast as]] on the grounds of neccessity in portrayal of issues. His works may still be declared inappropriate in some contexts but never he nor them are called wrong per se.

* '''Downplayed''': Alice can use mildly sexist language without being called out on it, but if she goes too far, she will suffer the consequences just like anyone else.

* '''Straight''': Alice (a black woman) can use racist terms about blacks and [[FemaleMisogynist sexist terms about women]], while Claire (a white woman) can be sexist, but not racist against black people, Bob (a black man) can say racist terms about blacks, but not sexist terms about women, and Dave (a white man) cannot be sexist or racist.

** Alice is a BoomerangBigot who uses slurs in genuine hatred, and pretends to be joking.

* '''Invoked''': Alice and the other female characters agree that it's okay for women (but not men) to make sexist remarks about women, seeing as how "it's not a crime if the victim consents". Same goes for racist slurs.

** Alice knows that sexist remarks about women are wrong, even if her female friends don't mind. Likewise, she knows that racial slurs are wrong, even if Bob doesn't mind.
** "I'm black, and you're black. It doesn't matters. You use the N-word around me, and you're going to eat my fist. You ''call'' me with the N-word, and you're going to eat ''bullets''."

* '''Played For Drama''': Alice loses a lot of friends because they are offended by her sexist and racist language.

** Alice, Claire, and Bob use the terms playfully, or [[DeadpanSnarker to snark]], whereas [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Dave uses it with hatred and contempt]].