Messy, messy, messy
I have an abnormally strong desire to watch an episode of Better Off Ted right now. But I'm under the covers and relatively warm and don't want to jeopardize that.
The past couple days have been stressful and emotional, but not for anything happening close to me. Amanda Palmer launched a project yesterday. It's a lighthearted carnival-punk muffin frosted with kiddie porn and child exploitation.
If you're saying to yourself, "but I don't frost muffins!", that's kind of my point.
The idea that those two topics should not intermingle that way is not the only thing about the project/launch, but it's the biggest part to me. Other bits are "crip drag", nonconsensual fiction, and AFP's 'open mic' gaff (tweeting something she really should have filtered before it reached her fingers).
I've engaged in the discussion in public, in a limited-access way, and in private, and it really gets to me.
It gets to me that there are so many touchy subjects in play that the whole thing is a tangled mess.
It gets to me that my main probelm right now isn't even with AFP, but with the people who passionately disagree with me. (Amanda admitted that the traumatic backstory should have been a secret ingredient in the muffins, not the frosting on top, which I thought was a good move, but it got lost in the roar over other things.)
Overall, I don't have anything new to say about it. The whole experience of being caught up in the discussion has been pretty disheartening. Especially the part about Art giving an Artist license to be unapologetic.
I think criticism and analysis is something in orbit around Art that can't be loved or hated. I don't want Art to be without it, but I don't want criticism to be the stronger of the two. But there are no rules in their relationship.
Why does it all have to be so messy?
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