Related thought: when does it come back to being ethical consumption? I haven’t checked but I would bet a range of historical artists and musicians were also real dicks. But obviously we dont care much about that, the art has successfully detached from the artist. Or better, the artist has detached from his misdeeds.
At least long enough that you’re not giving money directly to the person who did the bad thing.
Definitely once it’s in the public domain, or for all the people impacted to be dead.
There’s also a timeframe over which we can recognize that there has been sufficient drift in morality that we can overlook some things.
By the standards of his era, it was not okay for Roman Polanski to drug and rape a 13 year old.
There are certainly artists that had wives that, by modern standards, were disgustingly young but contemporary standards found unremarkable. Easier to fault the standards than a person who was perfectly normal for the time.
This, but also people who insist an artists’ actions can simply be separated from their art love to ignore the sheer discomfort some of us actually get from seeing or hearing rapists and abusers and their work.
Consuming their media isn’t isn’t just about funding them, it’s also about supporting not only their existence in our media, but their glorification by that media that in many cases enabled the abuse in the first place (putting people on a pedestal and beyond reproach never ends well).
Related thought: when does it come back to being ethical consumption? I haven’t checked but I would bet a range of historical artists and musicians were also real dicks. But obviously we dont care much about that, the art has successfully detached from the artist. Or better, the artist has detached from his misdeeds.
What do you suppose is the timeframe for that?
At least long enough that you’re not giving money directly to the person who did the bad thing.
Definitely once it’s in the public domain, or for all the people impacted to be dead.
There’s also a timeframe over which we can recognize that there has been sufficient drift in morality that we can overlook some things.
By the standards of his era, it was not okay for Roman Polanski to drug and rape a 13 year old.
There are certainly artists that had wives that, by modern standards, were disgustingly young but contemporary standards found unremarkable. Easier to fault the standards than a person who was perfectly normal for the time.
This, but also people who insist an artists’ actions can simply be separated from their art love to ignore the sheer discomfort some of us actually get from seeing or hearing rapists and abusers and their work.
Consuming their media isn’t isn’t just about funding them, it’s also about supporting not only their existence in our media, but their glorification by that media that in many cases enabled the abuse in the first place (putting people on a pedestal and beyond reproach never ends well).