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But sometimes making villains out of other people can distract us from our own complicities.
This isn't about casting women as victims or making villains of men.
In Chile, it was easy to see how the country made heroes of the 33 trapped mine workers in 2010, while making villains of their bosses.
Slowly but surely we've been doing the same thing with our most visible good-time girls, making villains of women who are dangerous almost exclusively to themselves.
I accept that teams build a group mentality by making villains of their critics.
"Making villains of kids who bully does not create a positive environment.
"Making villains out of people who are doing their job on Wall Street seems to miss the point," Steven A. Cohen, executive director of Columbia University's Earth Institute, told the Chronicle.
"I would love to see people stop making villains out of government workers — they are good people" said J. David Cox, the president of the American Federation of Government Employees, the union that represents 45,000 TSA employees.
Still, physical distance makes villains seem bigger than they are in real life.
But while such broad tastes have mostly made villains of coyotes as they happily expand their diet to take in the family pet when they can get it, they have also, at least once, made them the hero.
They have publicly humiliated former business titans from Rupert Murdoch to Bob Diamond, forced Starbucks to cough up £10m in tax and made villains of some of the world's best-known brands.
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