Faeries and pro athletes
Feb 04, 2022 6:21 pm
They always blame the Indel
Once there was an athlete who amazed everyone with his preternatural skill. Because of the love and admiration of his fans, he was never held accountable for his actions. He wasn't a nice guy, and sometimes he took things without asking, but people excused it. After all he was a genius who got their team to the playoffs. You can't treat a guy like that as if he were just a regular bloke, right?
This athlete decided he wanted a beautiful, talented woman. She refused. He insisted, but she knew this guy was a total dick, and being famous hadn't improved his personality. So the athlete refused to play games anymore unless she agreed to do what he wanted.
You know how it goes from here. The public blamed her. Who was she, this mere woman, to refuse a great man who was famous and good at sports? After all, he was the best player they had, he should get anyone or anything he wanted. People called her all kinds of names and treated her badly. How dare she place her own happiness and safety above their desire to have their team win.
You know this story, right? It's one of the plots in Faerie's Killer, but it could be pulled straight from the headlines. That's what I love about writing fantasy: I can take something I feel passionately about and disguise it so that it's not about a pro baseball player who beat his wife but about a faerie Jal-Dit player who wanted to bond with an Indel. At its heart, it's about the injustice that occurs when the evildoer is a famous athlete and the person he's cruel towards is someone with less social standing, say, a woman or an Indel.
This always angers me. For example, when women report rapes against public figures and the public lambastes them for being attention-seekers. As if anyone wanted that kind of attention! I can't do much about injustice in the real world, but in my novels, I can make bad guys and then shoot them. It's a catharsis.
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