May 29, 2021
Here’s another example “villain” Actually the word comes from the latin “villanus” meaning “farm worker”. In medieval french and later english it progressively started to mean someone “ugly” or “stupid” because farm workers were generally not the brightest people around and many had difformities or disabilities. Later in english it started to mean someone evil or monstrous because in the popular mind “ugly people” would do “ugly deeds”… And this is how through stereotype and bias a simple farm worker became an evil-doer. Not something “logical” but something deeply rooted in biases and stereotypes.
