Values Dissonance/Playing With
Basic Trope: A work causes consternation outside its culture or after an attitude shift.
- Straight: After attitudes change, Bob's belittling of women comes off badly.
- Exaggerated: The work was written in the final days of a society that had come to value egotism, cruelty, and cowardice.
- Justified: Attitudes on issues addressed have changed since the work was written. On the whole, they have changed for the better.
- Inverted: Fair for Its Day
- Subverted: A Fair for Its Day work perceived today as Values Dissonance
- Double Subverted: A work that seemed to be Values Dissonance was in fact bigoted even for the time.
- Parodied: A comedy that subverts tropes regarded as having Unfortunate Implications.
- Deconstructed: The reputation of the work is ruined by the bigotry of its themes, regardless of the technical quality of the work (Birth of a Nation).
- Reconstructed: The work is seen as an enlightening insight on the society of that period, and is valued as such (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn).
- Averted: The values of society represented in the story have not changed considerably since it was written.
- Enforced: "We want this to represent our culture in our day, whatever people may think in sixty years."
- Lampshaded: "It seems fine and dandy now, but maybe twenty or thirty years down the line what we did today will make people who hear our story cringe. Who knows?"
- Invoked: The Show Within a Show is a propaganda piece for the bad guys.
- Defied: The author anticipated, by savviness or luck, where the next big attitude shift would lead us.
- Discussed: "As a work of art, Mr. Big Bad, your book is good. However, many of my people have serious objections to the content."
- Conversed: "Look. Alice and Bob are a good team, and definitely better than the Big Bad, but their attitudes on race leave a bad taste."
Tell your woman go back to Values Dissonance and clean it up for you! (Sorry, that line was written in The Fifties.)