I was watching some tv series on YouTube, and trying to figure out the difference between the good guys from the bad guys, and so far the only differences I could see was the good guys were in their twenties lived in fancy huge houses, wore designer outfits and revealing clothes, and the bad guys were middle aged or elderly and wore modest dark clothes and lived in warehouses or ended up homeless.
You couldn’t tell the characters apart behaviour wise because they were terrible people (the characters, not the actors portraying them. The actors are nice people). And it was really weird because:
There are good people out there who can’t afford fancy huge houses.
Being in your teens or twenties doesn’t make you the good guy in real life (there’s good and bad people across all ages).
Being elderly or middle aged doesn’t make you evil (there’s good and bad people from every age group).
Wearing designer outfits and revealing clothes doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a good guy in real life.
Wearing modest long sleeved shirts, turtleneck sweaters or long trousers, long angle length skirts or dark coloured clothes doesn’t mean you’re a villain in real life. Plenty of people dress modestly because of their culture or religion, and that’s fine.
Living in warehouses or being homeless doesn’t mean a person evil - there are good and bad people who are homeless, just as there are good or bad people who have homes.
Also the supposedly plain girl wearing a long sleeved turtlenecked sweater was just as pretty as the bombshell actress wearing leather and tight clothes. The Hollywood definition of plain is someone who’d be considered ridiculously pretty in real life.
I’m not saying people should stop making these tv shows, I’m just saying they should consider how to portray people from marginalised groups tactfully.
