I see it in so much writing that what a character actually should and should not know and think given their caste, culture, role, and even species is tossed out the window for a more intelligent sounding vocabulary or to fit a way of thinking the author is more in tune with. You never see REAL people behaving as they would. Life is uncomfortable, and if you want to write you are going to have to express life. If you want to write well, you are going to have to portray something that makes you uncomfortable, because it is there and life is incomplete and artificial without it.

Some of the things I write about do not settle well with me, but they are facts of life, they are the things that certain mind sets would have no second thoughts about. I create living breathing worlds, true working cycles of life, and those cycles are as imperfect as the real world around us. I have had nightmares from things I have placed upon the pages. I have had to get up and walk away from things I have written about because they triggered my own terrible memories. When i sit before the keys and carry on with a world, I am telling the story of a person or people living in their world, not some safe place I have created to hide from life. the whole point is to see life from another view, perhaps a bit more fantastic of a view, or to see life taking place in a more fantastic place, not to ignore what life is all together.

That said, if you see something in my writing that bothers you, offends you, or is just plain something you do not like, it is not necessarily my views or how I wish the world to be. It is merely a part of life that would appear in the particular facet the characters must face. I believe the question that best fits is; if there is nothing to overcome, how do we find our heroes?