God I cannot STAND writers who stick fiction into (the stupidly named) non-fiction. I was reading Tony Parker's Lighthouse, supposedly an oral history, and I was sitting on the forecastle of a container ship (cos it's me, obvs) and once I'd finished it, I read the acknowledgments and it said "some characters are composites." No no NO that means "some characters are made-up." I absolutely and totally agree with you that she should have either ditched the fiction or written fiction. I threw Lighthouse across the fo'csle, I was so angry.
I devoured Toxic with a mixture of outrage and shame. I remember being silly enough to hate Paris Hilton without really knowing or understanding what she was doing. But I too miss the piss-taking nature of a lot of British media, whilst acknowledging that a lot of it missed what we’d now see as trauma-related behaviour. Thank you for writing it.
This is the nicest thing you could say - and I'm glad you miss the piss-taking too. I love Beyoncé, but the idea that she's a moral sage to be treated with great seriously is quite exhausting. I don't think you need to overdo the shame, though - we were all in the same soup, and berating ourselves doesn't bring anything back. There's a big difference between young, dumb and careless (Justin) and actually evil (R Kelly): the shame belongs belongs to the latter.
God I cannot STAND writers who stick fiction into (the stupidly named) non-fiction. I was reading Tony Parker's Lighthouse, supposedly an oral history, and I was sitting on the forecastle of a container ship (cos it's me, obvs) and once I'd finished it, I read the acknowledgments and it said "some characters are composites." No no NO that means "some characters are made-up." I absolutely and totally agree with you that she should have either ditched the fiction or written fiction. I threw Lighthouse across the fo'csle, I was so angry.
I devoured Toxic with a mixture of outrage and shame. I remember being silly enough to hate Paris Hilton without really knowing or understanding what she was doing. But I too miss the piss-taking nature of a lot of British media, whilst acknowledging that a lot of it missed what we’d now see as trauma-related behaviour. Thank you for writing it.
This is the nicest thing you could say - and I'm glad you miss the piss-taking too. I love Beyoncé, but the idea that she's a moral sage to be treated with great seriously is quite exhausting. I don't think you need to overdo the shame, though - we were all in the same soup, and berating ourselves doesn't bring anything back. There's a big difference between young, dumb and careless (Justin) and actually evil (R Kelly): the shame belongs belongs to the latter.