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<blockquote data-quote="Eyes of Nine" data-source="post: 9093393" data-attributes="member: 99786">Finished it, 10/10 would recommend. Her thesis:The trajectory of the internet has made it so it is nearly impossible to separate the work from the biography - you just can know so much about a creator. At the end of the day, our patriarchal structures of society reward men who abandon their families and social norms as long as they are &quot;geniuses&quot;; capitalism is what makes it each consumer's responsibility to buy or not buy a given creator's work - when in fact it's the system that's at fault (just like climate change and recycling/buying electric car/etc etc etc). Because we know so much about each creator, and each creator is embedded in the patriarchal capitalist framework, it is inevitable that all creative [men] will be discovered to be monsters in some way.Can we fight the patriarchy and soul-crushing capitalism? Well of course AND WE SHOULD - but performatively not buying Miles/Woody/Roman/Ernest/Pablo's works is not the way to do that. If you love their work - enjoy their work. We all love someone who is flawed - because all of us are human - by definition we are flawed. Why should we expect our creators to be any different?That's basically her message.I also loved her memoirist vulnerability and the details of her struggles to balance being a mother and being a creator.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Eyes of Nine, post: 9093393, member: 99786"] Finished it, 10/10 would recommend. Her thesis: The trajectory of the internet has made it so it is nearly [I]impossible[/I] to separate the work from the biography - you just can know so much about a creator. At the end of the day, our patriarchal structures of society reward men who abandon their families and social norms as long as they are "geniuses"; capitalism is what makes it each consumer's responsibility to buy or not buy a given creator's work - when in fact it's the system that's at fault (just like climate change and recycling/buying electric car/etc etc etc). Because we know so much about each creator, and each creator is embedded in the patriarchal capitalist framework, it is inevitable that all creative [men] will be discovered to be monsters in some way. Can we fight the patriarchy and soul-crushing capitalism? Well of course AND WE SHOULD - but performatively not buying Miles/Woody/Roman/Ernest/Pablo's works is not the way to do that. If you love their work - enjoy their work. We all love someone who is flawed - because all of us are human - by definition we are flawed. Why should we expect our creators to be any different? That's basically her message. I also loved her memoirist vulnerability and the details of her struggles to balance being a mother and being a creator. [/QUOTE]

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