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points by howunfortunate 1 day ago | 0 comments

You...you do know who the "bad guys" were in the Scarlet Letter, right?

[–] sirshmooey 1 day ago

Probably a better question for Elon's harem of birth-mothers

[–] howunfortunate 1 day ago

Again, I'm begging you to go look up a plot summary. Hester is the hero protagonist!

[–] sirshmooey 1 day ago

Congratulations, you've rewired the metaphor.

[–] mrguyorama 1 day ago

The scarlet letter didn't have "Good guys" and "Bad guys". That was sort of an important theme of the book since the priest himself was the baby daddy.

[–] howunfortunate 1 day ago

The main message of the book is "Wearing your choices on your sleeve can be painful in a judgmental world, but is ultimately healing; attempting instead to appear spotlessly moral will tear you apart from inside out"

Now apply to this thread.

I mostly agree it's not as simple as good guys and bad guys, but if anyone's a bad guy it's the most judgmental townspeople and the priest who lets Hester take the full brunt of judgment while he pretends he's squeaky clean.

[–] qwerpy 1 day ago

Hahaha. This is too good. These hateful people are so caught up in their outrage that they don’t realize they’ve become the bad guys.

[–] iugtmkbdfil834 1 day ago

It is worse. They think their hatred is somehow justified.