Authors, what annoys you about depictions of your own gender by opposite-sex authors?

I think we're getting into questions of personal taste now, where the only justification anyone needs is "but I like it like that". I agree with you, I don't personally like reading about morally reprehensible spankees. When I said earlier that I want to like the spankee, I guess that was badly worded; what I meant was, I would only want to spank someone I like, nice people, (in writing or otherwise), so I don't enjoy reading that the spankee stole money from poor people, or abandoned his children, or chronically abused his employees, or something equally appalling.

I have also been accused of sadism and abuse with my fictional female spankers; I think it's just very difficult to convey a balanced character in any spanking scenario between adults, everyone's limits are in different places on the spectrum.

No, I for one doesn't like cruel or sadistic spankers, it's really difficult to write it like that and it can easily leave a sour taste afterwards. To me it's so much more rewarding to write about completely whacked situations where everybody goes like, "There's a problem here - let's just spank everybody and see if it helps!!" and then, "No, it didn't help - we probably didn't spank enough!!" and then they're at it again, because as we all know, a spanking automatically solves all problems and makes everybody happy in the end, even if they don't realize it at first.

Burgundy
I have also been accused of sadism and abuse with my fictional female spankers; I think it's just very difficult to convey a balanced character in any spanking scenario between adults, everyone's limits are in different places on the spectrum.

Yes, it's hard to make everybody happy when one reader's "sadism and abuse" is another's "nice warm-up, now let's see some action!" Sometimes I get comments about a character going overboard and think "are you serious?" By that same token, upon further review I've been occasionally forced to admit that the punishment far exceeded the crime.

Most of my stories are about deserved discipline in a more-or-less caring environment. But sometimes things go dark when I'm writing and veer off on an uncomfortable tangent. If you'll forgive the shameless self-plug, one of my current stories is about a trailer park Bubba who spanks his daughter just for the amusement of his buddies at halftime on Monday nights. Definitely one of the "mean-spirited sadists" that CrimsonKidCK was referring to.

mj2001
one of my current stories is about a trailer park Bubba who spanks his daughter just for the amusement of his buddies at halftime on Monday nights. Definitely one of the "mean-spirited sadists" that CrimsonKidCK was referring to

Yes, but when I read it, I got the feeling there was more to come, and that eventually, she would be able to leave this lout. Call me "Pollyanish" but I do like to see things work out as they should in the end. Sometimes though, that end is over someones knee being worked over with a hairbrush. Sometimes it takes a while to tell the story and reach the conclusion we want.

Yeah, I read it, and I think it's a really good story. I commented on it, but my comment got rejected - I guess it really was too mean. Let me know if you want to read it anyway, I'll send it to you as a pop-up. Fair warning: I tore you a new one. Not about the plot itself, I'm fine with dark storylines. About how you wrote it. And I've thought of a few more choice things to add to it since I originally posted it too...

This philosophy applies perfectly to something ghastly and traumatizing that happened to me this weekend: I took my children to the movies to see Beauty and the Beast. Every single person in that movie needed a beating.

One of the main complaints about the original cartoon version was the cruelty of turning the prince's servants into household objects - they were innocent! The producers tried to deal with that complaint in this new movie, and had the teapot explain that all the servants were equally responsible for the curse that was put on them all, because they "stood by and watched" and "did nothing" as the prince turned into a spoiled brat, so it's their fault as well. And I thought, well, that's pretty contrived, but all right, I guess I'll accept it as a very flimsy reason for why they, too, deserved to be turned into furniture.

But then as I walked out of the theatre after it was over, I was like, wait a minute, what did the dog ever do?? I'm pretty sure the dog had nothing to do with allowing the prince to turn into a spoiled brat, and certainly did not deserve to spend decades as a barking footstool.

And who made the brilliant decision to have Ewan McGregor spend the entire two hours as a talking candelabra?

All this misery could so easily have been avoided with pre-emptive beatings for everybody, up to and including the movie gaffer.

Burgundy,
Lovely way to start a story. Is there more to come?

Yeah, here it is:

Tiffani's boobs turned towards her beloved husband of twelve years as he entered the kitchen, and he said:
"Honey, up til now we've only had sex for procreation in the missionary position, but I've always wanted to spank you in front of all our neighbours and your parents and my parents and your ex-boyfriends from high school. How about it?"
"Holy shit, why didn't you say so?" squealed Tiffani in delight, immediately ripping off her short plaid pleated skirt and black lacy panties and tossing them in her husband's face, then throwing herself and her bouncing nude globes across his rock-hard knees.
Then the door was flung open by the troupe of thirty onlookers parading in to watch, and Tiffani's husband proceeded to spank her expertly and erotically even though he had never spanked anyone in his life.
"Ow-ow-owww-ooooo-hoooooo!" she cried in pain and ecstasy as her silky bottom cheeks turned from creamy to crimson. "I deserved that!! It was what I needed and now I MUST blow you or die!" With that, Tiffani rolled off his lap and hastened to mash her face into his crotch for the most intense blow-job of his life, both of them so aroused they forgot about their families and neighbours, who all promptly went home and spanked each other silly.

Now that's a plot line. Pathos, drama, erotica. It has it all.

Agreed! Burgundy, I think you've found your literary groove!