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kleinbl00  ·  1757 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: June 5, 2019

    Do you think it's possible to meaningfully distinguish someone and the things that person does?





ilex  ·  1757 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My wife and I were picking cherries the other day and she was singing Are You Gonna Be My Girl. We ended up ripping into it for having terribly misogynistic lyrics even though it's a pretty good bop. Or listen to Fashion Nugget -- especially It's Coming Down -- and reflect on how all the breakup songs just reveal how much the author just doesn't see that his behavior towards his ex was awful.

I guess what I'm saying is that sometimes you can't split the art from the artist's bad parts because the artist put those parts of them into their art.

kleinbl00  ·  1757 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I agree wholeheartedly. From the linked article:

    The comedians Dana Min Goodman and Julia Wolov said that after Louis C.K. cornered them and masturbated in front of them at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in 2002, they feared that speaking out about the incident could risk their careers. While Louis C.K. felt free to flaunt the behavior throughout his comedy — in one scene of “Louie,” Pamela begs him not to start masturbating in front of her — the women were silenced. He took advantage of them, then took ownership of the experience.

Personally, I have a really hard time ignoring context. And art is all about context.