Dear Internet types,
I just found out I don't agree with someone(SugarSpunSister)'s political leanings but I do like her art very much. How do I reconcile this?

Have you ever found out someone wasn't just a one-dimensional character and had various facets to their personality? How did you deal with the feeling of not living in a world of black and white absolutes?
(StapMyVitals wouldn't mind a bit of that, Fri 7 May 2010, 14:20, 24 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Have a wank.

(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Fri 7 May 2010, 14:29, Reply)

Hmm...
I like it.
(StapMyVitals wouldn't mind a bit of that, Fri 7 May 2010, 14:33, Reply)

Pretend you're living in a world of black and white absolutes
by watching some interracial porn while you're at it.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Fri 7 May 2010, 15:33, Reply)

It's certainly true
That I don't like the porn that involves "grey areas".
(StapMyVitals wouldn't mind a bit of that, Fri 7 May 2010, 16:47, Reply)

Make a pass at her...
...and if she doesn't put out tell her that her art is dreadful and naive.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 7 May 2010, 14:42, Reply)

I should point out
I have never actually met her in real life or anything, or do you just mean I should send her a suggestive message?
(StapMyVitals wouldn't mind a bit of that, Fri 7 May 2010, 15:02, Reply)

So you like her for her art?

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 7 May 2010, 15:06, Reply)

t +se
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 7 May 2010, 15:09, Reply)

Good point., thank you.
So you have seen her art, but have you had a look at her arse?
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 7 May 2010, 15:12, Reply)

I'll have to come clean
I have never seen her arse, or indeed anything but one photo. It didn't make me wank myself into a coma but I could be convinced otherwise.

I also actually don't know anything about her personality past that garnered from a few comments on /talk either.

She really does have an absolutely smashing art though.
(StapMyVitals wouldn't mind a bit of that, Fri 7 May 2010, 15:20, Reply)

Why the fuck do you care weirdo?

(PsychoChomp, Fri 7 May 2010, 15:21, Reply)

About the art?
'Cos it's good.
(StapMyVitals wouldn't mind a bit of that, Fri 7 May 2010, 15:22, Reply)

About her political views, how easy it is to wank over her photos or anything else.
You're acting weird.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 7 May 2010, 15:26, Reply)

Oops
I should have made it clearer that bit wasn't 100% serious.

I really don't think much of Tories though. Call it prejudice.
(StapMyVitals wouldn't mind a bit of that, Fri 7 May 2010, 15:28, Reply)

prejudice. sanity.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 7 May 2010, 15:30, Reply)

If you only fancy her art (rather than arse)...
...why do you care about her politics?
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 7 May 2010, 15:27, Reply)

You have it Tuggers.
SMV - praise her work when appropriate, but with a rider stating your political disparity. That's the sort of talk girls like.
Or just admire her 'Art' and ignore the Artist.
If it's a shag you're after there are other 'art' based sites. Ask Tuggers.
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Fri 7 May 2010, 15:40, Reply)

I do think he is after her arse...
...and just pretending to like her art.
How shallow. Just tell her that her art is shite, her politics vile, and that you would like to do 'the sexy' with her - how can one fail with that sort of honesty?
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 7 May 2010, 15:55, Reply)

You got me...
I've drafted this love letter for your perusal:

Dear SSS,

When I saw you favoured the Conservatives it made me howl in animalistic fury like a baboon with a flaming bicycle chain up its jap's eye. Having learned further that you do what can laughingly be described as "art" and realistically be described as "a steaming piss on the memory of the Renaissance", I decided to smash a bagful of lovely kittens with a hammer to spare them the shame of existing in the same reality as your odious bile.

The sheer force of the rage you inspire in me makes me oft-times vomit molten bronze. It is otherwise a cold, unyielding hate, like an endless plain of jagged steel stretching across my mind's expanse.

Yours, StapMyVitals

P.S. Would you like to do mucky things with me and bodily fluids? I am relatively hygienic and wear very tight pants.
(StapMyVitals wouldn't mind a bit of that, Fri 7 May 2010, 16:11, Reply)

Duuuude!
You are SO in with her.
Odds on she is gargling your gonads by the end of the month.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 7 May 2010, 16:23, Reply)

Because I'm a die-hard leftie
and because she expressed right-wing leanings I assumed that anything else about her (i.e. what she linked to in her sig) would be reprehensible.

I was surprised to find I was so prejudiced against someone based on literally nothing more than a few comments on /talk. I thought the abject ridiculousness of my thought process was there in my original post but I can see the meaning was just in my own head.

To clarify: I never have met and never will meet SugarSpunSister, I know nothing about her, and I certainly haven't associated her with cracking one out.

I would definitely buy her work though.
(StapMyVitals wouldn't mind a bit of that, Fri 7 May 2010, 15:50, Reply)

Ask her 'how much'.
...and if you get arrested for kerb-crawling it is your own fault so don't come crying.*
*Unless the Lord's Prayer is involved.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 7 May 2010, 16:00, Reply)

How do you feel about Richard Strauss?
My aunt Dot was one dimensional - I just couldn't see the point of her.

Not living in a world of B&W absolutes? - I'm getting used to it.
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Fri 7 May 2010, 15:03, Reply)

BAdum TISH
As for Richard Strauss? I probably wouldn't, even though I do find the whole German thing quite alluring.
(StapMyVitals wouldn't mind a bit of that, Fri 7 May 2010, 16:21, Reply)