Fair enough. I'm glad they at least have a different name. What you say is true - I do assume much about werewolves. This is because of my own personal attachment to them.
Still, it does bother me. The combination of a wolf and a man shouldn't be necessarily evil or good, as neither of the components are. Some go the route of saying a wolf is an evil being, to which I would like to respond by kicking them in the face a few times. Others take the route of malevolent spirits being involved in the combination, which makes more sense.
I'm glad you didn't take my rant personally - it wasn't meant that way, like I said. It's simply that for time out of mind, the werewolf has been portrayed as an evil being, and every time I see another movie or book come out that follows that line of thought, I cringe, thinking society is taking even more steps to reinforce an idea I find inaccurate, appaling and vile. Even in roleplaying games (barring World of Darkness), I find that playing a lupine character means virtually the entire world is out to get you from the get go. You fight against it, you're called a wild, savage, untamable beast; you let it go, and you're killed, your name forgotten and anything you could ever have done thrown to the winds. It's... very frustrating, and it's happened to me time and again.
I can't stop playing werewolves because I can't distance myself from a strong emotional tie to them. As a result, I'm a bit... sensitive on the matter. More sensitive, in fact, than many of my friends would likely believe I could be. I'd probably say oversensitive, but that's not my place to judge... Anyways, that is why I wrote such a rant on the subject. I don't really talk about it too much, even to my friends - there's no point. Generally they already know my standpoint, most of them share it... no point preaching to the choir. As for the rest of the world, well... It's been proven to me by other circumstances that my voice means nothing in that scope, and can only get me in trouble for voicing ideas that are not 'in the normal spectrum'. And ohhh, do I hate it.
Thanks for taking the time to reply. I respect your intelligence and maturity for not biting my head off - it's happened a lot before. :)
Re: The author comments on the Digital Knight review... Part 1
Still, it does bother me. The combination of a wolf and a man shouldn't be necessarily evil or good, as neither of the components are. Some go the route of saying a wolf is an evil being, to which I would like to respond by kicking them in the face a few times. Others take the route of malevolent spirits being involved in the combination, which makes more sense.
I'm glad you didn't take my rant personally - it wasn't meant that way, like I said. It's simply that for time out of mind, the werewolf has been portrayed as an evil being, and every time I see another movie or book come out that follows that line of thought, I cringe, thinking society is taking even more steps to reinforce an idea I find inaccurate, appaling and vile. Even in roleplaying games (barring World of Darkness), I find that playing a lupine character means virtually the entire world is out to get you from the get go. You fight against it, you're called a wild, savage, untamable beast; you let it go, and you're killed, your name forgotten and anything you could ever have done thrown to the winds. It's... very frustrating, and it's happened to me time and again.
I can't stop playing werewolves because I can't distance myself from a strong emotional tie to them. As a result, I'm a bit... sensitive on the matter. More sensitive, in fact, than many of my friends would likely believe I could be. I'd probably say oversensitive, but that's not my place to judge... Anyways, that is why I wrote such a rant on the subject. I don't really talk about it too much, even to my friends - there's no point. Generally they already know my standpoint, most of them share it... no point preaching to the choir. As for the rest of the world, well... It's been proven to me by other circumstances that my voice means nothing in that scope, and can only get me in trouble for voicing ideas that are not 'in the normal spectrum'. And ohhh, do I hate it.
Thanks for taking the time to reply. I respect your intelligence and maturity for not biting my head off - it's happened a lot before. :)