Dark and Light
Human beings have a bias. Good is beautiful. Ugly is bad. This bias doesn’t just play out in our social realms. For example, there are fruits and vegetables that never make it to market because we have an expectations that it must be perfect. An apple that isn’t reasonably round just won’t sell. Consequently, tons of apples will just be tossed to the ground- which is okay, the ground needs it’s share of fruit, too. So do the animals that might eat off the ground. But it could also have been juiced, sliced and put into a pie or a can. Even though we have memes reminding us not to judge books by a cover, we still do.
Only bad witches are ugly is a theme as old as man, made into a solid meme with Wizard of the Oz, and carried forward by Lucas in Star Wars. In the latter, if you choose a life of evil, you will become scarred, deformed, and just rather unpleasant to be around. In real life, you can be both beautiful and evil. Not just beautiful, but captivating, charismatic, charming, pleasant… We may be hard wired to fall for this trap.
How many Disney tropes can you name where the bad is ugly? Heck, we could likely spend years breaking down the story of Beauty and the Beast. Men are bad, therefore ugly? Men are bad in their natural states… Well, any unsocialized human will likely be seen…
