They went out and killed them too then were rewarded with gold and exp.

It's over if you guys aren't running Orc-mode game in 2018

if you want to know what a monster is, get high and watch planet earth

JFL. I love this sub

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Incels even show up on opera. Alberich in Das Rheingold, from the race of ugly chthonic Nibelungs, tries to seduce the Rhine Maidens at the beginning of that opera, and they find it oh so funny to lead him on and reject him.

He gets even by renouncing love so that he can steal the Rhine Maidens' gold, forge the Ring of Power from it and try to rule the world.

Come to think of it, the Giants in Das Rheingold are incels too. They built Vahalla for the gods based on the understanding with Wotan that he would give them the hot goddess Freia as payment. Freia finds the Giants repulsive, however, and Wotan has to talk them into accepting the Nibelungs' gold as a substitute, though they also demand the Ring of Power to close the deal.

I did some research on this last semester actually and I found it really interesting. In the early modern period they called it "Teratology", the study of monsters. It was a fairly rudimentary science that beleived that pregnant women were the cause of their babies deformations. So for example, practising witchcraft while pregnant leads to babies with missing fingers, or eating lots of blackberries while pregnant causes purple birthmarks. Shit like that. But the terminology is really striking to me, how a deformed child could be born and the initial reaction was to call it a monster, find somebody to blame and then start studying it.

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It's true. If you were born deformed back then you either became a burden to your parents or were shipped off somewhere the rest of society didn't see you. Orphanage or circus usually.

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Acid face all smoothskins, show them what it’s like. They’d rope day one.

Doubtless, you have a very good personality.

it's more than just incels, it's used to explain all kinds of weird things that just raise too many questions

short wild people in the forest are faeries/ whatever

devils walking on cloven feet reminds me of autists walking on tiptoe honestly

This still continues now. With albino people in Africa. They are often killed at birth, or hunted as adults and their body parts even used in witch doctor medicine.

People have always been scared of difference and when you add to that a lack of education and exposure to the outside world, even today we can see huge discrimination based on what people THINK of another who is different.

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But isn't Satan, the greatest evil, said to be Beauty itself? Isn't he supposed to be the king of sexual temptation?

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Yes and no. Yes because The original Lucifer was an angel, and was beautiful by default. Him going against God’s command was a big deal because he was/is an angel.

No, because later renditions literally demonized him into this giant, red horned monster with a large sexual appetite. Whether you tie this to the fall from heaven or not is up to you. I’m not a huge follower of religious mythology, so it’s difficult to say when we split the two apart. It doesn’t help hat we sometimes combine the two, resulting in a (asexual)beauty with asexual appetite.

Odds are those stories are about either different human cultures and predatory animals, actually.

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No one is saying anything malicious lol.

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Didn’t people obsess about cumming in Shreks ass at one time

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Aww cmon don’t be a homophobe m8

Shrek is love, Shrek is life

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I took a cultural theory class abt he presence of monsters in history and this I definitely not the case

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Come to think of it, the Giants in Das Rheingold are incels too. They built Vahalla for the gods based on the understanding with Wotan that he would give them the hot goddess Freia as payment. Freia finds the Giants repulsive, however, and Wotan has to talk them into accepting the Nibelungs' gold as a substitute, though they also demand the Ring of Power to close the deal.