{"id":51524,"date":"2024-12-22T14:02:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T22:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=51524"},"modified":"2025-06-25T10:10:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:10:58","slug":"milkshake-duck-status-and-rationales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/12\/22\/milkshake-duck-status-and-rationales\/","title":{"rendered":"Milkshake Duck Status and Rationales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For my own purposes, a (not comprehensive) list of currently known <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milkshake_Duck\">milkshake ducks<\/a> in my media libraries, how I&#8217;m treating their work in my own consumption habits, and any rationales or justifications for these decisions. You may not agree with any or all of this, and that&#8217;s fine. This is kind of an exercise to help me figure out why I&#8217;ve made the decisions I have, and perhaps, whether I should rethink or change those.<\/p>\n<p>This is being actively updated as my mind processes, and likely will continue to be updated as I think and if (or, unfortunately, when) more people out themselves as belonging to this category.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Scott Adams<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scott_Adams#Views\">General right-wing buffoonery, including sexism, racism, anti-science views, etc.<\/a><br>\nHaven&#8217;t really paid much attention to him in years anyway, thanks to his eye-roll inducing rants, but do have the very fancy oversized 10-year anniversary collected <cite>Dilbert<\/cite>, which was last taken off the shelf to see if it was the right size to prop up part of our couch (it wasn&#8217;t). Will probably offload it at some point.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Woody Allen<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Woody_Allen_sexual_abuse_allegation\">Sexual abuse<\/a><br>\nNot watching any new work or supporting by buying old work. Keeping and will occasionally rewatch old favorite films already in the collection. While I certainly don&#8217;t wish death upon him, his eventual passing will mean that I&#8217;ll be more easily able to justify finding those of his films that I know I enjoy but won&#8217;t purchase now.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Piers Anthony<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/revisiting-the-sad-misogynistic-fantasy-of-xanth-1798241312\">Sexism, misogyny, pedophilic themes<\/a><br>\nAny of Anthony&#8217;s books I had in my collection got booted years ago, after I started re-reading the <cite>Xanth<\/cite> series, got through the first two while getting increasingly uncomfortable, and then doing a little research and discovering just how bad it got. I couldn&#8217;t imagine having those on my shelves if any of my niblings ever went looking for something to read. <\/li>\n<li><strong>Orson Scott Card<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orson_Scott_Card#Personal_views\">Homophobia<\/a><br>\nNot buying any new stuff, though I did pick up used copies of the first few <cite>Ender&#8217;s Game<\/cite>\/<cite>Speaker for the Dead<\/cite> sequels and read some of them after reading those two Hugo winners (I think I still have some to go). From what I&#8217;ve seen, OSC hasn&#8217;t been nearly as vocal or influential as he once was, the <cite>Ender&#8217;s Game<\/cite> books are too foundational to my early SF reading to write them off, and my re-read for my <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/hugo-reading\/\">Hugo best novel reading project<\/a> confirmed just how good they are &#8212; and, interestingly, how drastically their message of inclusion contrasts with OSC&#8217;s statements. Unlike Anthony, whose beliefs are very obvious in his work, OSC&#8217;s work actually doesn&#8217;t hint at his personal beliefs (and in many ways, actually seems to contradict them), so it&#8217;s much easier for me to justify keeping his books on my shelves.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Neil Gaiman<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/muccamukk.dreamwidth.org\/1678972.html\">Sexual abuse<\/a><br>\nStill adjusting to this one. Won&#8217;t be buying, reading, or watching any new projects. Keeping books and films already in the collection, but it&#8217;ll probably be a while before I feel like re-reading anything (and just decided to skip his two Hugo award winning novels in my Hugo reading project).<\/li>\n<li><strong>J.K. Rowling<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/feature\/1020838\/jk-rowlings-transphobia-controversy-a-complete-timeline\">Transphobia<\/a><br>\nNot buying, reading, watching, or otherwise supporting any projects. Haven&#8217;t ditched the Potter books or films already in the collection, but not re-reading the books (and just decided to skip her one Hugo-award winning Potter book in my Hugo reading project) or re-watching the films. Stopped subscribing to HBO&#8217;s Max streaming service in part because of their decision to move forward with a new Harry Potter series.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dan Simmons<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/mythcreants.com\/blog\/building-hyperion-how-simmons-scattered-his-world\/\">Islamophobia<\/a><br>\nThe same basic bucket as OSC: Not reading anything that isn&#8217;t already in my collection, but the <cite>Hyperion<\/cite> cantos was too mind-blowing to entirely ditch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A list of currently known milkshake ducks and how I&#8217;m treating their work in my own consumption habits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2036,2037],"tags":[3970,5748,1895,4263,5986,5985],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}