village voice music editor, nyu adjunct, accidental blogging pioneer. i like loud music and room-temperature seltzer, and my dream job is to be chief fact-checker of the internet.Why the Boner Party backlash is not bullshit.
I posit yes. Ned Hepburn is “objectifying” women as much as any writer or director does: he writes beautiful fictions based on individuals, knowing full well that he is not accurately capturing their identities but using them as inspirations for flights of fancy. To accuse him otherwise is to unfairly demand that writers use only literal facts and remain tethered to the ground.
We all project onto our lovers. Boner Party does no more than that, and does it well.
I agree, but I already know the response from the opposite side to this argument, which is it doesn’t make it right just because Hemingway and others did it.
The more people argue about this, the more traffic it brings BP, so it’s a win-win for them no matter what.
Are you guys serious? Really? I guess it’s nice to know that it’s still really nice to have white-male privilege, and to use the “‘twas ever thus” argument whenever someone might make you feel hinky about the fact that it still exists.
(Never mind that the problem is that the projections in question don’t have identities as much as they have “correct” cultural signifiers stuffed into the back pockets of their American Apparel jeans. But I guess because Zach Braff and [insert canonical male artist whose stuff tends to be overrated thanks to similar hegemonic forces] did the same thing, all is forgiven?)
