people not living up to minimal expectations

I've been expecting this from the #MeToo movement for a while: the famous person whose misdeeds would be a blow to me personally because I loved something they created. It's happened before the Weinstein accusations, when Bill Cosby's accusers finally made a big enough noise for national news to pick up the story. I used to love Cosby's comedy routines, but I just can't listen to them anymore.

Anyway. Sherman Alexie is a poet and novelist. One of his stories from the book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven was turned into the film Smoke Signals. He wrote an award-winning YA novel. And he's apparently a serial harasser.

Dammit. I am sad that a movie and books I love won't feel the same now. I'm angry for the native women whose voices were drowned out because of fear of reprisal, whose works never got the attention because of Alexie's de facto status as a gatekeeper for other native writers.