I used to love Joss Whedon from everything he made. I grew up watching Buffy, and loved Firefly, then Marvel got him for Avengers and I was excited for him to be getting such a big break. He later Agents of Shield which I also loved. But then it came out that he was an abuser. His whole persona of championing strong women was merely a facade to hide this.
Learning that Michelle Trachtenberg (RIP) had a clause in her contract while working in Buffy (2000-3) at age 15 that she was not to ever be in the same room as Whedon alone opened my eyes to just how bad things are. Not just how bad he was, but how well it was known that he was an abuser and no one did anything about it. That’s just how things were.
I have a hard time watching Buffy or any of his works anymore, just knowing now that he was behind these things.
As a teenager I loved to read Lovecraft. It was a way to learn English as a nice side effect because it isn’t my native language but that also obscured the appalling racism from me which lead to disappointment when I found out later.
Lovecraft deserves some redemption. First of all he wasn’t especially racist, just the “normal” amount for his time (take with a grain of salt please!). More importantly he significantly mellowed out in his later years primarily due to exposure to talented black writers which made him realize the error of his ways.
But yeah, I wouldn’t ask him to name my void cat.
Kevin Sorbo as Hercules©®™.
And I used to listen to the lost profits as a teenager. ultra sigh
Neil Gaiman. I fucking loved Sandman and damn near everything else he wrote. Finding out he’s a total scumbag has basically ruined a lot of very dear memories.
Bill Cosby, fersure…
but there’s a musician called Paris, and I don’t know if he became horrible,
but he definitely seemed to have lost it, & gone over to the dark-side, at 1 point…
Black musician, switched from calling out shit to just pushing more darkness.
NOT like Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, or the main guy from Public Enemy Number One, who ( that I know-of ) held-to positive/proactivity…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_(rapper)
Actually, I think all ideologues go in the bin, now, in my view…
IF anyone pushes ideology instead of objectivity/correct-reasoning/evolving-worldview-to-match-evidence/spirituality, THEN … they’re just pushing their-own ideology’s totalitarianism, & not outgrowing ideology-the-category.
After the dictatorship-tippingpoint gets crossed by Trump, & the mass butchery of Civil War Part2 begins, then that’ll make more sense.
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Not so much an evil person, but moreso a fool that fell for conservative and techbro propaganda, John Carmack is insanely smart and intelligent bookwise, but i think his social skills are zilch.
Sandy Petersen is another one i really used to enjoy but the amount of times he’s scammed people out of crowdfunded boardgames has turned me off from anything that has to do with him.
Thankfully John Romero is a great person (afaik) who overcame his ego, probably after Daikatana failed to sell.
He didn’t even make me his bitch. Disappointing.
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