Hi Gail! Love your work. Anyway, I've seen a lot of posts from you and others regarding art or books made by people with problematic beliefs or the like. I don't doubt you're well aware, but some of the people writing might be interested in looking up the

That is interesting. I don’t know this particular school of thought, but I often hear people say that they can separate the author from the art. I admire that ability, but I don’t know that I WANT to separate it in that way…I don’t watch Mel Gibson films, I don’t by Orson Scott Card books, you know, I don’t want to support anti-semitism and homophobia. 

I don’t expect creators to be infallible. I feel like that is a very bad road to go down, no one is ever going to meet that standard. But some things are hard to look past, and I’m not sure we SHOULD be looking past them.

A couple of the big time critically beloved creators right now have had very weird, not-very-friendly-with-females histories and I find it very hard to read their work, knowing what I know. So I just leave it alone, and I am fine with that, there’s plenty of great stuff out there to read from authors who are a little less backwards, socially.