Tiffany Bond  🦞 🇺🇸Verified account

I really hope the 2020s lets us close the history book on collectively loving men who had immense talent, but also openly thought abusing women was fine.

I know this might be unpopular, but can't we separate the man from his work? Can't we hold two contradictory opinions at once. Ted Hughes was a bastard but still a brilliant Poet...and I like his poetry inspite of him

The thing is a whole lot of abusive bastards have gotten away with a whole lot of abuse for a long time because we consistently have separated the men from the work.

what about dead ones? Like TS Eliot? They aren't getting away with anything anymore...I am not being a troll...i am seriously asking because I love literature and I have 2 degrees in literature, and these men (and sometimes women) wrote important work...and were abusive.

Jennifer, I recently read an article about Flannery O'Connor (if memory serves) and passages in her letters that pointed to racism. I think we *can* discuss talent without accepting or condoning bigotry or other negatives. But it's complicated, I know.