Lovecraft was appalling. His work is riddled with racism and misogyny. But he still gets all the plaudits. Dickens tried to send his wife to an insane asylum because she was inconvenient. Byron was a rapist. Yet they get all the slack. - ThreadSky

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karisperring.bsky.social • 36 days ago

Lovecraft was appalling. His work is riddled with racism and misogyny. But he still gets all the plaudits.
Dickens tried to send his wife to an insane asylum because she was inconvenient.
Byron was a rapist.
Yet they get all the slack.

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phalo-blue.bsky.social•36 days ago

Ooooh and don’t get me started on the massive crowd of degenerates that were 20th century male authors. Fitzgerald? TRASH. Hemingway? ASSHOLE.

superawesomefunguy.bsky.social•35 days ago

Is the slack that their writing is admired or something else?

karisperring.bsky.social•35 days ago

They are “canon”. They’re studied and emulated.

superawesomefunguy.bsky.social•35 days ago

So is the fact that they're canon what you mean by slack?

marxvssmith.bsky.social•35 days ago

Being a rapist doesn't preclude you from being one of the greatest poets of all time unfortunately. Just like being a child molester didn't preclude Michael Jackson from being one of the greatest voices of all time. The awful and the extraordinary exist all at once, sometimes in the same person.

karisperring.bsky.social•35 days ago

Yes, indeed.

mcoyslefthand.bsky.social•36 days ago

Picasso also— just awful human.

skyhoglet.bsky.social•35 days ago

The music industry is full of these people too, especially "classic rock" artists.

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