Are some people who do a lot of good sometimes disliked and people who do bad loved?

[overlord337645]

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

People are complex individuals, and many are capable of change.


Take my grandmother, for example. She’s 88, a former English teacher who got her degree at 42 because she wasn’t able to go to college as a girl, she values education so highly that when my parents couldn’t cover my college tuition, she put forth money from her fixed income to help pay for my education. She is a mother of 3, grandmother of 12, and great grandmother of 7 and very beloved as our matriarch.


She’s also vehemently racist, using social class to hide her prejudices, constantly judging others, constantly belittling others, can never say “I’m sorry” without adding a “but” at the end of it and making it the fault of the person she’s apologizing to, she doesn’t have a nurturing bone in her body, she was emotionally abusive to my mother and her siblings, and uses religion to justify her bigoted views and discomfort around anyone that doesn’t fit her standards.


Admittedly, my grandmother has come a long way since my mother lived with her, but I have not witnessed that progress. To me, once I was old enough to understand the concepts of racism, bigotry, and general bitchiness, she always was a bitch. A bitch I’ll always be grateful to know and will look after all the same. You can be both good and bad at the same time. To believe you can only be one or the other is an incredibly stunted mindset.

[Account]

Yes.
Look around you.
It doesn't take more than that to notice it.

[oldpigg]

Women tend to be attracted to the Dark Triad: narcissism, manipulation, and psychopathy.

[Anonymous]

No, of course not.