I recently watched a youtube video about autistic kids as horror movie villains. There’s a lot of them! There are also plenty of queer horror movie villains. Plenty of schizophrenic villains, plenty of villains with DID. Plenty of nonwhite villains, or more commonly back in the day, white actors in brownface playing villains.
Sometimes horror can be a mirror we hold up to society’s biases to critique them. See: anything by Guillermo del Toro. But all too often, horror is a mirror we hold up to society’s biases to reproduce them.
The Narcissistic horror movie villain is a repetition of stereotypes about NPD that people already believed.
Maybe you’re young, and those were actually your parents’ generation’s beliefs, which you absorbed out of context. So many people don’t even understand their own prejudices.
But there are young people who still believe the most blatant forms of this stereotype. I meet them all the time. They’re quite unpleasant to be around.
I recently watched a youtube video about autistic kids as horror movie villains. There’s a lot of them! There are also plenty of queer horror movie villains. Plenty of schizophrenic villains, plenty of villains with DID. Plenty of nonwhite villains, or more commonly back in the day, white actors in brownface playing villains.
Sometimes horror can be a mirror we hold up to society’s biases to critique them. See: anything by Guillermo del Toro. But all too often, horror is a mirror we hold up to society’s biases to reproduce them.
The Narcissistic horror movie villain is a repetition of stereotypes about NPD that people already believed.
Maybe you’re young, and those were actually your parents’ generation’s beliefs, which you absorbed out of context. So many people don’t even understand their own prejudices.
But there are young people who still believe the most blatant forms of this stereotype. I meet them all the time. They’re quite unpleasant to be around.