Trope Repair Shop:
Acceptable Targets
31st Jan '23 9:33:19 AM
Crown Description:
Acceptable Targets and its various subtropes are supposed to be about groups of people that society deems acceptable to make fun of. However, the usage suffers from a few major issues. Acceptable Targets is both a ZCE magnet and a pothole magnet. Those two categories alone made up over half the wicks, and that's only counting the entries that had no examples with context at all. There are several other entries with ZCEs but have at least one example with context, which I put in the appropriate category for that example. The vast majority of examples that do have context don't talk about how the group is acceptable to make fun of and are therefore redundant with Take That. The few that do are generally hypotheticals. The examples don't show the audience's perspective either, which is unacceptable because the tropes are YMMV. In addition, a lot of examples are about targets works portray as acceptable, and Acceptable Targets and its subtropes (except for Once Acceptable Targets and Unacceptable Targets, which are not NRLEP) are No Real Life Examples Please. What should be done with Acceptable Targets, the Acceptable X Targets subtropes, and Once Acceptable Targets? Note that this thread does not cover Unacceptable Targets.Convert Acceptable Targets into an index for tropes about specific targets (such as Burger Fool and Evil Lawyer Joke); the conversion into an index would mean removing the YMMV banner
Redirect/merge Acceptable Ethnic Targets, Acceptable Hard Luck Targets, Acceptable Hobby Targets, Acceptable Political Targets, Acceptable Professional Targets, and Acceptable Religious Targets into Acceptable Targets (if Acceptable Targets is made into an index, they will be redirects to the index, and if tropes about specific in-work targets exist, examples will be moved there if they fit).
Redirect Once Acceptable Targets to Values Dissonance
Disambiguate Once Acceptable Targets between Dude, Not Funny!, Unacceptable Targets, Values Dissonance, and possibly other pages
Disambiguate Acceptable Ethnic Targets, Acceptable Hard Luck Targets, Acceptable Hobby Targets, Acceptable Political Targets, Acceptable Professional Targets, and Acceptable Religious Targets between pages related to specific targets (such as disambiguating Acceptable Professional Targets between Burger Fool, Evil Lawyer Joke, Soul-Sucking Retail Job, and possibly other pages) if there is not consensus to redirect/merge them into Acceptable Targets.
Convert Acceptable Targets and, if there is not consensus to redirect/merge them with Acceptable Targets, Acceptable Ethnic Targets, Acceptable Hard Luck Targets, Acceptable Hobby Targets, Acceptable Political Targets, Acceptable Professional Targets, and Acceptable Religious Targets into objective tropes for works treating targets as acceptable (note that all of these are already No Real Life Examples, Please!)
Redirect Once Acceptable Targets to Unacceptable Targets
Redirect Once Acceptable Targets to Acceptable Targets
Redirect Once Acceptable Targets to Dude, Not Funny!
