User blog:Ḡwẵine Ḹٍٍkƨ Ĺiĸe Ͼềлȑềd/Lookism in Villains - common perception

Hey guys! I have been seeing a lot of people disgracing Sarrum whereas not destesting as such about Morgana. To me Sarrum was a good character. He wasn't as superfluous as Agravaine or the Euchdag, he was fearsome and brutal. To me they are good qualities of a villain. I know he tortured Morgana and Aithusa but... Morgana also tortured many and I'm sure she will be torturing more people in the future! To me what Sarrum keeping her in captivity was merely justice, Morgana would be killing people every 5 minutes or so for that entire 2 year-span if it weren't for Sarrum. But why aren't there any people accusing her of being horrible to see?

Well, here is the answer...

Lookism!

People often judge characters, particularly sinister ones, villains... if they like the look of them... Like if they are young or sexy or hot or beautiful or pretty or handsome or cute, many people often easily forgive them or just dismiss all the bad things that they have done if they have as such of an appearance.

Like let's put it this way.

Do you think Morgana would have as much fans if she was 50 years older?

and do you think you'd hate Sarrum as much if he was a young handsome 25 year old man torturing a 70 year old Morgana?

And also...

People saying he 'deserves to die because he's sick' strongly implies that those people saying it may have a mutual opinion about people doing sick things in the real world. To me death is never the answer, no human has a right to kill another human, two wrongs don't make a right.

Just something to think about. I'm not saying you should not hate Sarrum, just don't hate Sarrum because he's old and Morgana is young... Unless you wouldn't mind seeing yourself as someone who's lookist and ageist.