Originally posted by Q99
My view? Someone's current views, and more-so if someone is currently involved in active support of those views, matter to me and can be a reason to avoid their work.Someone's past views, especially if they repented, don't matter nearly as much.
That's fair enough.
While I might read it, i'd never buy it.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Orson Scott Card - Scifi writer & Anti-Gay Militant
Originally posted by Robtard
I disagree(US laws do too). His actions still make him a scumbag human being and bound to the legal issues regardless if the victim found it in her heart years later to forgive his actions. And she most definitely was a victim(being drugged and sodomized against your will is a crime, this is besides her being 13 at the time), so not sure why you captured it like she wasn't really a victim. "Force" him to flee? LoL. He didn't want to spend time in jail, so he split, that's another crime in of itself.
Polanski has directed a couple dozen films since he fled America in the 1970's, with lots of huge stars - Harrison Ford, Hugh Grant, Pierce Brosnon, Johnny Depp and many others. Is your opinion of them lowered because they worked with him? Do you think they are enabling his continuing career when they shouldn't? I haven't heard of a major star ever refusing to work with Polanski because of that scandal.
Originally posted by dmills
At this rate guys like Card, Miller and Chuck Dixon will be out of work soon. I seem to remember a similar controversy back when Chuck Dixon was writing a Midnighter/Drifter book.
The thing about Dixon, though... is he'll write gay characters well! And he's not a member of any anti-gay organizations! The primary reason he hasn't gotten work a bit was some argument with DC, I believe (subject unknown, likely unrelated), but if he did get more work I don't think there'd be much reason for backlash. His controversy was muuuuch smaller.
Miller, he's just... kinda crazy and not written good stuff in awhile anyway.