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On Being The Bad Guy

On Being The Bad Guy

Or, what doesn't kill you will just keep coming up in therapy.

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Kendra Syrdal
Aug 06, 2025
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Maleficent makes her entrance in Sleeping Beauty (1959).

I know without question I am the villain in many people’s stories. And for the most part, I’m comfortable with that. There’s a level of inevitability in life that we will hurt people’s feelings, that we will be wrong, that we will do harm. I do not find that to be a crucifiable offense.

And yet…

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