The Generic Villain on Prejudice and Villain Cred |
| Published: May 24, 2009, 3:00 am |
| Tags: on gaming, advice for antagonists, generic villain, prejudice, touchy real world issues |
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The Dark Powers have me on Demographic Watch this week. It’s good to do that settle in, rejuvenate that mindset of treating people as statistics. But some of what I’ve been learning strikes me as worth talking about a little more closely. Namely, I’ve noticed that a lot of newcomers, when trying to establish themselves as Big Bad Evil Guys, tend to try to do it through some sort of bias. Usually it’s sexism or racism, though I’ve seen people try it with ageism, classism heck, some people even miss the point and try to make their token ism feminism. (This invariably fails further, mainly because they get it conflated with misandrist-type sexism. Use a dictionary, people!) Point is, it’s being seen as a short cut, same as unprovoked puppy kicking or gratuitous child abuse. People think that if they just do that, and do that in a sufficiently over the top manner, they don’t have to worry about any of the other qualifiers for [ Full article ] |
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