How am I meant to feel
when my favourite musicians wear feathered headdresses (Melora Creager, Emilie Autumn) and do other problematic rubbish like use the term ‘homo’ as a synonym for stupid (Voltaire), make fun of women on their period (Voltaire), say it’s ‘normal for a man [to cheat]’ (Voltaire), tell women to check their “lips at the door” and “shake [their] hips like battleships” (Jack White), and rape a Katy Perry lookalike on stage to teach her a lesson about trivialising bisexuality (Amanda Palmer)? This last example completely changed my already skeptical opinion about Amanda Palmer and I actually cannot stand her now…
It makes me uncomfortable, and I get horribly offended, but I still love them so much and I don’t want to boycott them because that’s crazy! They do so much good as well as bad… Does this make me a bad person? Does anyone else have this problem? What am I meant to do?
