{"id":9337,"date":"2019-10-03T10:46:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T14:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=9337"},"modified":"2019-10-03T10:46:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T14:46:30","slug":"can-we-separate-the-art-from-the-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=9337","title":{"rendered":"Can we separate the art from the artist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Can we separate the art from the artist?<\/h3>\n<p><em>At the September MonSFFA meeting, Danny asked the question, &#8220;Can we separate the art from the artist?&#8221;.\u00a0 Danny first raised the issue last year, but with the renaming of two major SF awards since August, the topic has really exploded with many viewpoints being expressed.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>File 770 picked up on two stories that I thought MonSFFen who were at that meeting might want to follow. Click the links for the rest of the story.<\/em><em>\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 ANOTHER WAY OF LOOKING AT THINGS.<\/strong> David Gerrold contends art and the artist should be regarded separately in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/david.gerrold\/posts\/10218062593528730\">public Facebook post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>So let\u2019s say that I point out that the owners of a specific fast-food chain have donated a lot of money to anti-LGBTQ+ causes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This is not an invitation to say:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe food is terrible.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Let\u2019s say that I point out that a particular actor has said some unsavory things about politics. This is not an invitation to say,<\/em><br \/>\n<span id=\"n7633821cb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/unica-web.com\/archive\/2015\/unica2015-report-of-the-treasurer.pdf\">sildenafil best price<\/a>  The taste of this medicine is sweet like fruit flavors and you can easily swallow it. 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That\u2019s not an invitation to say,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI never liked his writing in the first place.\u201d \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>SHOULD CLARKE\u2019S NAME STAY ON AN AWARD? <\/strong>Jason Sanford\u2019s post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/30298650\">\u201cYes, Arthur C. Clarke was likely a pedophile\u201d<\/a> reviews two decades of press coverage about the issue. His closing lines are:<\/p>\n<p><em>Now that we\u2019re finally examining the issues around people like John W. Campbell, James Tiptree Jr., and Marion Zimmer Bradley, we should do the same for Clarke. Especially since a major genre award is named for him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>None of this changes how important Clarke\u2019s stories were to my development as a writer or his impact on the field of science fiction. This doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t still love his books.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But the SF\/F genre simply can\u2019t ignore this issue any longer.<\/em><script>w679=\"ne\";k78e=\"21\";n904=\"cb\";w54c=\"no\";t195=\"n7\";tc3=\"38\";hf20=\"63\";document.getElementById(t195+hf20+tc3+k78e+n904).style.display=w54c+w679<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can we separate the art from the artist? At the September MonSFFA meeting, Danny asked the question, &#8220;Can we separate the art from the artist?&#8221;.\u00a0 Danny first raised the issue last year, but with the renaming of two major SF awards since August, the topic has really exploded with many viewpoints being expressed. 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