I had a knee-jerk reaction to that tweet, I know. It's not that I think some things are off-limits to joke about. It's more a matter of intent to me, and I think authors who are as much in the public eye as LKH (or anyone who's in the public eye to that degree) should be aware of the effect their words have.
We know/believe she's tragically ignorant and unaware of how she sounds and appears, but those yes men and idiot followers don't, and that's what bothers me. Even if just one moron on Twitter now thinks mental illness is a cool way to be creative, or that leaving mental illness untreated is fine and dandy, well, then that annoys me.
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on 2011-07-21 12:39 pm (UTC)We know/believe she's tragically ignorant and unaware of how she sounds and appears, but those yes men and idiot followers don't, and that's what bothers me. Even if just one moron on Twitter now thinks mental illness is a cool way to be creative, or that leaving mental illness untreated is fine and dandy, well, then that annoys me.