Almost all literature would be impossible if writers couldn't write villains for fear of some critic accusing them of making the villain into a hero.
Exactly.
You can't look at an artist's body of work to determine if they were an asshole in their personal life. Stephen King is a horror writer - he's not an asshole, nor is Neil Gaiman. This weird desire to condemn people for what you might or might not see in their art is absurd. Also art can be interpreted in more than one way - regardless of what people may think.
It's like the soap opera fandom confusing the evil characters they love to hate with the actors played to portray them. Just because an actor is paid to portray to a rapist in a film, television series, or play doesn't make them one in their real lives. And just because a writer writes an explicit murder - doesn't make them a psychopath or murderer. LOL!
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Date: 2021-02-22 02:57 pm (UTC)Exactly.
You can't look at an artist's body of work to determine if they were an asshole in their personal life. Stephen King is a horror writer - he's not an asshole, nor is Neil Gaiman. This weird desire to condemn people for what you might or might not see in their art is absurd. Also art can be interpreted in more than one way - regardless of what people may think.
It's like the soap opera fandom confusing the evil characters they love to hate with the actors played to portray them. Just because an actor is paid to portray to a rapist in a film, television series, or play doesn't make them one in their real lives. And just because a writer writes an explicit murder - doesn't make them a psychopath or murderer. LOL!
These people are being absurd.