Beautiful Villains, Ugly Heroes: Rethinking How We Describe Characters

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Growing up, we were told never to judge a book by its cover.

At some later point, we realized people do judge the proverbial book by its cover. The older I got, the more I experienced, read, and thought about human nature. It's in our nature to judge and label to better understand the world around us.

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