# What Do We Do With the Art of Monstrous Men?  ## Metadata - Author: [[Claire Dederer]] - Full Title: What Do We Do With the Art of Monstrous Men? - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - URL: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/11/20/art-monstrous-men/ ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > But hold up for a minute: Who is this “we” that’s always turning up in critical writing anyway? We is an escape hatch. We is cheap. We is a way of simultaneously sloughing off personal responsibility and taking on the mantle of easy authority. It’s the voice of the middle-brow male critic, the one who truly believes he knows how everyone else should think. We is corrupt. We is make-believe. The real question is this: can I love the art but hate the artist? Can you? When I say we, I mean I. I mean you.