Carolyn, after all, has the audacity to want to look attractive—a quality that, no doubt in the backs of their minds, they wished they could pull off. And so they distanced themselves from her—She’s not one of us. “Slave ethics,” wrote Nietzsche, “begins by saying no to an ‘outside,’ an ‘other,’ a non-self, and that no is its creative act. This reversal of direction of the evaluating look, this invariable looking outward instead of inward, is a fundamental feature of resentment.”24
Othering
