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She is one of my favorite artists of all time, hands down, and has made my life better with her stories and her creative bravery. My favorite album of hers is The Dreaming and I proselytize her music to everyone who will let me. But I don’t think I would like her much personally and politically and I explain why in this post. She unfortunately is very obviously a misogynist. I actually was told recently in a Joanna Newsom facebook group that I had a “massive ego” for saying exactly that by a man, so that was fun. As a person who has experienced misogyny for twenty-six years, I think I know how to identify it and I’m pretty sure I am expert on it, so thanks for nothing, dude. In short, with her I make the distinction between the art and the person, but I can’t do that with everyone and I don’t expect people to that with her.