Hating people who aren't "perfect" is an essential part of capitalism. As autistic people had begun to be treated with some degree of kindness in real life, people who felt the need to take their failings out on others targeted them because they felt good knowing they weren't "born wrong." And many of them probably were or are autistic, but they need to be different, "better" than them. It's just bullying.
You kind of see this split in folk tales start around 1600.
You've got the older ones where the ugly poor beggar woman is definitely Aphrodite/Saint Holyperson/A Fae Enchantress in disguise so you better be kind to poor and unfortunate people or you get the lightning's. Usually ones made up either by the lower classes or the feudal class
Then you have the guild capitalist tales, where there's a beautiful diligent kind woman who overcomes many troubles by being extra pretty and working herself to the bone and ends up making her ugly rivals dance on a fire till they die.
Hating people who aren't "perfect" is an essential part of capitalism. As autistic people had begun to be treated with some degree of kindness in real life, people who felt the need to take their failings out on others targeted them because they felt good knowing they weren't "born wrong." And many of them probably were or are autistic, but they need to be different, "better" than them. It's just bullying.
You kind of see this split in folk tales start around 1600.
You've got the older ones where the ugly poor beggar woman is definitely Aphrodite/Saint Holyperson/A Fae Enchantress in disguise so you better be kind to poor and unfortunate people or you get the lightning's. Usually ones made up either by the lower classes or the feudal class
Then you have the guild capitalist tales, where there's a beautiful diligent kind woman who overcomes many troubles by being extra pretty and working herself to the bone and ends up making her ugly rivals dance on a fire till they die.
it was the og culture war, and Lockean individualism won.
That makes so much Sense, I can't believe I never realised that! Now I have to figure out the hedgehog man/Blue Beard split.