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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 8439740" data-attributes="member: 177">To me, the issue, in a nutshell, is how we talk about these things. So, I am sorry, but you're providing me with a case study.  I'm going to pick it apart, to show a bit about unconscious biases.  You are not a bad person - just human.  Humans do this stuff all the time.My foremost point is that this doesn't match what you wrote above, that she would sell off rights piecemeal out of spite.  Indeed, if we take Dancy at face value, and the rights were already put up as collateral, she couldn't do that.  And the correct information was here on this site.My secondary point is that... well, "cutting it up and selling it piecemeal" is evocatively phrased enough to seem emotionally loaded.Which adds up to - we're using emotionally loaded phrases against her, when we don't know really have our facts straight... we could, but we don't......and SHE is the one who might be spiteful?Have you considered that, "they were afraid she might," is less a statement about her, than it is a statement about their fears?  What if their fears were irrational, or poorly founded?  Have you thought about that?  I mean, with all these various stories, does TSR of the day sound like it was a place with a lot of clean, clear, and honest communication going on?  Or does it sound like a place of fear, confusion, blame-throwing and responsibility-dodging?  We should question if any of these people had a healthy working relationship with her - if they didn't, their claims about why she was doing it are suspect, as they probably wouldn't know her well enough to say.Why don't we stop and consider the nuanced possibility that the situation and feelings at WotC were complicated, and not all due to a single problematic person (Williams).  Why don't we consider the possibility that there were many failures there, by many people, both in the executive and creative sides, and that the entire blame for how it all turned out likely doesn't lay on one person?  That we lean toward accepting one narrative, and don't accept much questioning of that narrative, is a demonstration of biases existing in our thoughts on the matter.</blockquote>

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