The Vulture article delves deep into the potential whys. It appears he suffered serious abuse by his parents who were very prominent Scientologists, pretty much the leaders of the cult in the UK.
Then, as an adult, he refused any kind of therapy. Instead, he became an abuser himself, even going so far as to potentially traumatize his own son.
None of that excuses his behaviour. He’s obviously very intelligent and his works show that he knew very well that what he did was evil and inexcusable. He wrote a chapter of Sandman about this exact thing! But in the end he just didn’t care. Because he probably thinks he’s rich, he’s famous and the rules don’t apply to him.
Kill your heroes
If I ever run into them at Walmart I will.
Dammit
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The article pretty clearly describes multiple cases of outright rape.
What are you talking about.
What’s next, are you going to tell me 50 Shades of Grey doesn’t depict healthy relationships?! /s
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New adage. The more vehemently some internet commenter tries to defend a rapist the more guilty they are.
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It’s pretty blatant assault.
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I’m not calling for the guy to be executed or anything.
Frankly we need more rehabilitation than punishment anyway.
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No dude (I’m assuming you’re a dude). If you read the vulture article, there’s assault.
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I thought you were said that what was alleged didn’t even rise to the level of assault, and honestly your earlier posts still read like that.
If that’s the impression most people are getting, that may be why you’re getting so down voted.
Tbh, I’m so tired of people that can’t be bothered to read something and think about it before making assumptions that I’m done with it.
The ability to turn off notifications is something lemmy desperately needs
I think another issue is that these women’s accusations are evidence, just not conclusive evidence or proof. Witness accounts and the pictures she provided are absolutely evidence, though. Neil Gaiman saying it was consensual is, by that same metric, also evidence. Getting those accounts through journalism is insufficient evidence for a conviction, but not for people to form an opinion. They should also be willing to revise that opinion, if and when additional evidence emerges.
You raped my dog.
There, I gave you evidence that you raped my dog.
Jesus christ. Didnt he do Marvel 1610 or something?
chrissakes
That is so bad, but man I hope they don’t cancel Sandman
I agree, not just because I enjoyed the show, but it seemed like it was a fantastic opportunity for many of the people that worked on it. Gaiman’s shit behavior shouldn’t spoil the hard work of the hundreds of people involved in the show.
They already cancelled its spinoff show Dead Boy Detectives. And from what I understand, Gaiman was pretty closely involved in the production of Sandman, so continuing the show without him probably wouldn’t be so simple. I’d say, just assume it’s dead and done now and save yourself the disappointment later.
Aw dang, Dead boy detective was so good too! bless it. Why can’t we have nice things 😭
It was a Netflix series, of course they’ll cancel it.
If they haven’t already filmed it and done the effects, it’s probably canceled. They might even shelve it anyway.
