Being fair, or playing too nice?
May. 10th, 2008 07:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
themadmermaidThroughout the Lexicon Wank, there have been small hints here and there of trouble in SVA's personal life, mostly having to do with him leaving his wife for a fellow fan. However, any real discussion of it in the endless series of wank entries on the subject has been banned or frowned upon, and so those small nuggets have been all that I knew, not being connected to the issue in any way save f_w.
It was interesting to me then to recently discover through comments here that allegedly Steve's obsession with the Lexicon and Harry Potter strained his family/marriage (which still exists, he's not divorced yet), that the woman he is dating is 23 (while he is 50 and his own daughter is 20), that he has almost no contact with his kids, and that since he is in the UK at this time he is not paying any support to his family, among other sordid details.
And by interesting, I don't mean "gee, look at what a fucked up mess this guy's life is!" schadenfreude. I feel that these details, while related to his personal life, cast some of his statements, decisions, and motivations as are related to the Lexicon and this whole mess in a different light. Additionally, the recent trend in press coverage portraying him as a sad, child-like innocent seem even more odd when you consider the apparent shambles of his family life.
I say because, for example, over the course of the wank there was mention of him needing to find a job in England, or saying that he moved to England to write. Well, according to his wife, he moved there to get out of paying support and apparently his girlfriend lives there. So there's something that has perhaps a different tenor if you know the personal details or not. And the press playing up the quiet librarian angle? According to his wife, he got fired from that job due to the affair, since it was a Christian school. I could go on and on, but I don't really want to dissect SVA's personal life, just show a few instances of how this stuff made me (and I think could make others) reconsider events as they pertain to the wank.
So, I'm not sure what I think about f_w keeping this on the DL. I have seen small instances of personal nastiness popping up in relation to what limited information has been posted, and I can see where extensive discussion has the potential to set off its own wank of epic proportions. On the other hand, I can't say that I think that it's not at all relevant either. I guess that means we'll chalk this up as yet another issue where I've taken a strong, decisive stance.
It was interesting to me then to recently discover through comments here that allegedly Steve's obsession with the Lexicon and Harry Potter strained his family/marriage (which still exists, he's not divorced yet), that the woman he is dating is 23 (while he is 50 and his own daughter is 20), that he has almost no contact with his kids, and that since he is in the UK at this time he is not paying any support to his family, among other sordid details.
And by interesting, I don't mean "gee, look at what a fucked up mess this guy's life is!" schadenfreude. I feel that these details, while related to his personal life, cast some of his statements, decisions, and motivations as are related to the Lexicon and this whole mess in a different light. Additionally, the recent trend in press coverage portraying him as a sad, child-like innocent seem even more odd when you consider the apparent shambles of his family life.
I say because, for example, over the course of the wank there was mention of him needing to find a job in England, or saying that he moved to England to write. Well, according to his wife, he moved there to get out of paying support and apparently his girlfriend lives there. So there's something that has perhaps a different tenor if you know the personal details or not. And the press playing up the quiet librarian angle? According to his wife, he got fired from that job due to the affair, since it was a Christian school. I could go on and on, but I don't really want to dissect SVA's personal life, just show a few instances of how this stuff made me (and I think could make others) reconsider events as they pertain to the wank.
So, I'm not sure what I think about f_w keeping this on the DL. I have seen small instances of personal nastiness popping up in relation to what limited information has been posted, and I can see where extensive discussion has the potential to set off its own wank of epic proportions. On the other hand, I can't say that I think that it's not at all relevant either. I guess that means we'll chalk this up as yet another issue where I've taken a strong, decisive stance.
