I developed this game six months ago, and now everyone is telling me it is dangerous:
http://carnellgames.bravehost.com/plastic_rules.htm
Game is called "Plastic Surgery". You can guess that this is a game where players must try to improve their features. How? Each player must get four cards. Those four cards will tell them what their deffects are (regardless of how they look like). A card can say he has a big nose (even if he doesn't) and needs liposuction, etc.
The purpose of the game is finding the cards with the right plastic surgery. A card that says "Nose Job" will allow you to get rid of the card that says "You have a big nose".
Problem is everyone thinks this game is far from marketable. Even my mom says people will be offended by it and can even get into fights; something that game publishers might see.
Do you agree? Is my game dead before it was even born?
Sounds like your big problem is that you think your theme may hurt your chances of getting it published.
If you send your game to a publisher and they think the theme is marketable, then it's their dime to lose if they're wrong. If they don't think it's marketable but they like the mechanics and want to publish it, they'll paste on a new theme anyway.
The problem is that a publisher may not want to put the effort to re-theme a game from a new designer (sorry if you have published games already and you're a big name in the design world).
If you wan to send this to a publisher, then try the publishers that are most likely to carry something like this. If you're going cartoony, then imagine which publishers would carry something of that sort. The worst that any publisher can say is "no thanks". At that point you just try another publisher.