Sex & Shenanigans

I struggle with this too …. Like songs by artists that are trash like R. Kelly …. Ignition is such a jam … but like… I don’t wanna support him. But also … what about all the other people involved in making the song … is it their fault this chode of a human did what he did?
Or like, KidRock …. He was always kind of a trash human … if I listen to his music does that mean I support him as a person or do I just like the music?

I always forget that JKR is a cunt nugget… I love the movies so much … and I’m sure all the across IN the movies don’t feel the same way …. So do they deserve to be shunned like you said, by proxy? I don’t think so. I always want to watch HP at Christmas time … and it’s comforting.

I wonder how much are (music, painting, movies, tv) that exists where people involved are horrible people … and we don’t know.
I was just/sort of am still having this conversation with someone right now. We all have our lines we can or cannot cross. With this one, I have two lines in fact. I love Joss Wheedon's work. He was a fantastic writer, and has a brilliant mind for fast, witty dialog. He is also a horrible person, who hid being a horrible person behind a facade of being a hip, feminist-friendly innovator, and damaged lives and hurt people whom I respect. And both things are true at the same time. But I am still showing my daughter Buffy the Vampire Slayer, every Monday for three years, because Buffy tells good stories and they are important ones as well, especially for a teenage girl. And I talk to her about Joss, and put a lot of this into context for her, because that is important too. I am not throwing out his work, but I am not buying anything new either. There are a lot of peopl who fit between that line and the next.

Chinatown is, arguably, one of the greatest films to ever be laid down. And I destroyed my copies of it years ago, and I won't watch it again, and I will not show it to my kid. It doesn't matter to me if he gets money for it or not, I cannot watch it with the same feelings I had when I saw it the first time. The Darkover books and Mists of Avalon were formative works, I loved them, and they were part of how I came to be who I am. My earliest understanding of feminism and egalitarianism were subtly carried to me on the words of Marion Zimmer Bradley. And she was a monster, and it came out after she died. I am not a book burner (well, other than my first novel, heh. A page at a time), but I burned my Darkover novels, and there were a lot, and my personalized signed copy of Mists. Because that was a line I couldn't cross.

I don't hold anyone else to my lines. I respect everyone, and trust them to chose what and why they consume what they do. It may be hypocritical, but I pick and choose, just like everyone else. I have soft lines, and I have hard ones (and anything having to do with kids seems to be a major ingredient in my hard lines.)
 
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