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Each week our contributors will argue over a certain question, and we
invite you to join in. This week: When a male celebrity perpetrates
violence against a woman do his female fans have a responsibility to
turn their backs on him? Can you love the performer and hate the
person? Forgive and forget once his next project is released? Or is
supporting an abusive celebrity's work akin to supporting his violent
behavior?
Nina Rastogi: I think this is the flip
side of “love the sinner, hate the sin” -- it's completely possible to
love the art and hate the artist. (That's different, of course, from
loving the art and excusing the artist, a la Roman Polanski.) At the
same time, it's impossible to avoid having our experiences as viewers
or listeners or readers colored by what we know about an artist's
personal life. If you can't hear a Chris Brown song without cringing or
getting enraged, by all means, stop listening to him. But I don't think
there's anything hypocritical about buying a ticket to his concert and
then spending the next morning, say, volunteering at a domestic abuse
center ... (Read the rest of this article in DoubleX.)