No, it’s not. What it is is an extremely hard pill to swallow, and I completely understand struggling with letting go of creatives whose work you enjoy. I’ve struggled with it every time, and I’ll continue to struggle with it, because it’s really effing difficult.
Also, it Gaiman's works have the essence of his rapes in them, you still enjoyed rape inspired media for years regardless of your ignorance. They don't become negative the second you find out. Everyone who ever liked his comics is a spiritual/artistic rape apologist, by your logic. Including you.
You’re working really hard to reduce a nuanced idea down to something simple and dumb, which it’s not. I’m not saying accepting responsibility for what you choose to consume is simple or easy, just that it’s necessary, particularly after the problem comes to light. Retrospect is like that.
I mean my favorite album was made by a band who's lead singer groomed two underage fans. That album still means alot ot me and while I'll never give them a cent because of that, I'll listen to that album till I die.
If you want to judge me for that, that's your silly little hill to die on.
I’m not judging you, but I think you’ve already come to the same conclusion that I have hence the fact that you’re no longer willing to support the artist.
The fact that you still enjoy the thing is understandable, but maintaining an accurate perspective of where it came from is a good thing.
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If you want to judge me for that, that's your silly little hill to die on.
The fact that you still enjoy the thing is understandable, but maintaining an accurate perspective of where it came from is a good thing.