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Andrew Dowd
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Chapter "Am I a Monster?" is a lot of navel-gazing.
Book is digressing from its stated promise/goal of addressing the ethics of enjoying art made by canceled artists.
The author is injecting so much memoir at this point, that it's hard to see how all this connects to the book's purpose.
— 18 hours, 51 min ago
Book is digressing from its stated promise/goal of addressing the ethics of enjoying art made by canceled artists.
The author is injecting so much memoir at this point, that it's hard to see how all this connects to the book's purpose.
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Andrew Dowd
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Good discussion so far of "separating the art from the artist."
I had the same icky feeling the author did when watching Woody Allen's "Manhattan" recently. Gorgeous black-and-white cinematography, great cast, and other merits. ... But the core of the movie is a guy in his 40s dating a 17-year-old! And that relationship is portrayed as acceptable in the movie. Ick.
— Jul 01, 2026 06:31PM
I had the same icky feeling the author did when watching Woody Allen's "Manhattan" recently. Gorgeous black-and-white cinematography, great cast, and other merits. ... But the core of the movie is a guy in his 40s dating a 17-year-old! And that relationship is portrayed as acceptable in the movie. Ick.
