#bad think

[thegoodmorningman]

Listen, there's honestly still a lot to be happy about and you better be savoring it while it's here. Good Morning!!!

[wiem-czasem-jest-zle]

Nie mogę uwierzyć, że mając teraz idealne życie, przypominasz się w najmniej oczekiwanym momencie....

I to nie da dobre wspomnienia....

To strach, ból, panika i gniew wymieszane w pustym wzroku.

[phantomwise]

You know, I like the classics as much as the next person, but the worst thing about these stories is that they hinge on a simple equation:

It's ugly, therefore it is evil.

And that's not even half of what makes up the horribleness in people, but it seems to me that a great deal of horror stories hinge on looks, not intent. They're ugly or deformed in some way, and that's why they're trying to kill people. There is an underlying sentiment here that people are well within their rights to be horrible to these beings (human or otherwise), because they're not pretty enough.

This is why I can't stand Frankenstein, any version of it. Mary Shelley touched on the subject -- that Dr. Frankenstein had a responsibility towards his Creature and behaved wrongly. But her main point isn't really that he behaved badly toward the Creature, it's the fact that he created it at all. Its ugliness and its evil are just punishments for him playing God.

I know it's a matter of interpretation, but I feel like this is something that comes back again and again, especially in horror stories, but more insidiously, in fairy tales. The monster is the bad guy, because he's ugly. Nice and uncomplicated.

I don't like it. Seems to me that it's an implicit license to spit on any person that isn't white, well-formed and at least nominally pretty. And maybe it wouldn't be such a big deal, but it survives even today, though the limits of what is acceptable has incredibly enough shrunk even further.