: Re: What kind of writing would be considered offensive? I am a young author writing a fantasy series. In my series, the main character has two different eye colors and looks down on herself because

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The fact of offense is nothing ; the reason for offense is everything.
There are people who are offended when homosexuals are oppressed. They believe that every human being has an essential dignity that cannot be denied simply because their life choices displease us.
There are people who are offended when homosexuals are not oppressed. They believe that a person's essential dignity most surely may be denied on account of life choices (and if you dig a little deeper, you'll find that there are a whole host of reasons for which they will deny your dignity).
People can be offended for good reasons, or they can be offended for bad reasons.
Make sure you're not providing a good reason for the reader to be offended.
Don't worry about the wrong-minded people. As a now-disgraced comedian once said,

I don't know the recipe for success, but the recipe for failure is trying to please everybody.

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