an artist publicly attacking a critic and directing rabid fans towards them is always corny and always harmful to independent criticism and thoughtful consumption of art and culture in general specially if it’s a big artist like halsey
Your mother is problematic. Your father is problematic. Your son is problematic. Your aunt is problematic. The cashier at the local Tesco is problematic. You've probably bought a cookie from a bakery made by hands that have done unspeakable things. Every chocolate bar you've ever eaten has probably killed a 7 year old child slave in Cameroon. The gas that drives your car is fueled by engines of death. Every person who has ever smiled at you in the streets has committed some act that if you knew about it, would make you profoundly dislike them.
We have all been bad, small, petty, unlikeable, cruel, downright mean. Authors are not special "problematic" beings, they're just more public. Part of being an adult is recognizing that without mercy for our fellow human beings, and ourselves, we'd all be condemned to death. Reading fiction should help us understand that we're all irreparably tainted with evil, every system is corrupted, every line is broken.
And like, that's okay. That's what it means to be alive.
@xcxxxtc @yochtclub the fact she chose to share something of her childhood in her own book that, again, involves two children who are now adults that don’t see it as problematic doesn’t justify starting a hate campaign. the real weirdos are the ones labeling this as incest
@xcxxxtc @yochtclub it is irrelevant as a topic of conversation because it’s been going on for years and everything that could possibly be said about it already has been. what are you even talking about “incenstuos climate”? the fact that it generated reaction doesn’t mean that the reaction is fair
Being a rape victim and reading how the bourgeois speaks about the children and women they were raping does make you sit and feel completely defeated like yeah my situation was small but no matter what someone like me will always be laughed at until silenced