[dieg0]

When talking about Neruda's life, don't leave out the fact he had a mentally challenged daughter. He had her institutionalized to never visit again in her entire life. He was a great poet, lived a lavish life, had many women and an eccentric lifestyle. But he was no role model, in fact, he was far from it.

[balladeer]

I maybe wrong in this assumption but I think very few know about a rape[0], at least that's what I think it was (from his memoir[1]), that he committed in Sri Lanka (Ceylon back then). It was a native Tamil woman. Doesn't at all read like a consensual act or an act of a transactional nature (which could be considered consensual).

I loved his love poems and I think I would still like them (maybe) but for some reason I don't think it's going to be the same after knowing about this incident from his life. Maybe I need to work on separating the art from the artist, if at all that can be a thing.

[0] https://globalvoices.org/2015/10/05/portrait-of-nobel-litera...

[1] http://tamilwoman.tumblr.com/post/79412843312/tw-rape-pablo-...

[diN0bot]

Nah, I don't think you _need_ to do anything but what you feel is just and right. I personally enjoy my art in context. Same when I make a purchase or cast a vote.

[soperj]

You can say the same about Jobs, but people still go on and on about him on this site.

[jacobolus]

Jobs was a shitty parent between the ages of about 23–30 (between a few years before that and the middle of that period he had gone from being a broke unemployed college drop-out traveling around India and then living in a commune to a workaholic world-famous celebrity and gajillionaire), after which he apologetically reconciled with his former girlfriend and their child. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#Family

[soperj]

He also screwed over his friend Steve Wozniak for money before Apple was formed. He has a history of being a terrible person. No reason to pretend this was the only thing.