Following initial investigation in July, three more women come forward, including one who signed NDA following her experience with author
Edit: Not sure why the link abstract says two. The article clearly says three.
Following initial investigation in July, three more women come forward, including one who signed NDA following her experience with author
Edit: Not sure why the link abstract says two. The article clearly says three.
I choose to continue to enjoy the work of people who turned out to be shitheads from before learning that they are shitheads. Michael Jackson, Phil Anselmo, now Neil Gaiman (actually, last year for him). All people who created great art that I enjoy and whose future work I will not consume (for the ones that are still alive). To be clear, MJ is only before the allegations. Thriller still kicks ass.
Is the MJ thing settled or are you just saying you avoid anything thats likely to be problematic too?
I mean, claims against MJ seem pretty bad and, I think, multiple enough that I can’t ignore them. There’s no proof, to my knowledge. But I’m not comfortable with it.
I think the running counter story is that he felt more comfortable around kids than adults, but people couldn’t believe it was innocent. Its really hard to play the accusations game. Macaulay Culkin saying he spent tons of time with him and nothing bad ever happened is as much evidence for good as any of the accusations of wrongdoing.
I also think there was and still is a problematic understanding of psychology especially with small children.
Yeah, you can appreciate that people are complicated, and bad people can create good things. If you try to only read books by people who are morally above reproach, you will wind up with a pretty short reading list.
I can justify still enjoying Pantera by knowing that most of what made them awesome was Dimebag.