We need to stop having that conversation because That stopped being the question!
That WAS the question in the beginning when we as a society were really trying out a new form of advocacy where millions of people could have a parasocial relationship with an author in real time and learned that their “friend” was being a jerk but that is far from the question now.
JKR used her fantastic wealth to fund the lawyers that made the landmark decision to change the legal definitions of woman and render UK Gender recognition certificates moot. This decision has legitimately caused a surge in workplaces siding with transphobic employees, attacks on trans and cis people in bath and changing rooms, disqualified trans women (a population who is known to have high rates of domestic abuse, rape and human trafficking), from shelters and medical/mental services they desperately need.
And she lit a cigar and patted herself on the back for a good use of 700,000 pounds stirling.
There are other groups and causes she funds and supports through attention capture through her activism and bank account. This isn’t separating art from artist - it is cutting off revenue streams to a hateful popular activist campaigning to make vulnerable people die because she finds them intellectually inconvenient.
“Can one separate art from artist?”
We need to stop having that conversation because That stopped being the question!
That WAS the question in the beginning when we as a society were really trying out a new form of advocacy where millions of people could have a parasocial relationship with an author in real time and learned that their “friend” was being a jerk but that is far from the question now.
JKR used her fantastic wealth to fund the lawyers that made the landmark decision to change the legal definitions of woman and render UK Gender recognition certificates moot. This decision has legitimately caused a surge in workplaces siding with transphobic employees, attacks on trans and cis people in bath and changing rooms, disqualified trans women (a population who is known to have high rates of domestic abuse, rape and human trafficking), from shelters and medical/mental services they desperately need.
And she lit a cigar and patted herself on the back for a good use of 700,000 pounds stirling.
There are other groups and causes she funds and supports through attention capture through her activism and bank account. This isn’t separating art from artist - it is cutting off revenue streams to a hateful popular activist campaigning to make vulnerable people die because she finds them intellectually inconvenient.
I always get nervous when someone else tells me I am asking the wrong question. That is usually closely followed by “You don’t understand”.
In this case, the situation just changed.