This is why we shouldn’t put men on a pedalstool. I’m shocked to see so many people ignoring this. He is an active user on bluesky we have to be consistent. Believe all victims
This looks very bad to me. "Had established consent" (by directly asking?) is a sensible standard in many situations, but not with
1) An employee
2) In his house
3) Just after meeting her.
Completely ignores power in the situation, and the ability to coerce. Very bad indeed.
Wondering if this was what was behind the 'I had to break various laws to flee New Zealand and make for my cottage in Scotland during Covid because it was urgent' thing.
It's a topic of much irritation to me that his wife made a very conscious choice to stay in NZ BEFORE official lockdown and summoned him and their kid to join from overseas, but went on about how they were stranded here. There were zero restrictions on leaving NZ.
gwen: yeah, this is very grim. even if, as he claims, these encounters were consensual, one of them was with an 18 year old fan and that's at the very least an unhealthy power dynamic.
hoping that people just haven't seen this yet and aren't actively choosing to ignore it
Toxic. In many ways worse profoundly worse than a proud and loud misogynist does this.
When you mouth the right words, say the right things, build a brand based on you being a decent person, and use THAT power to abuse, it's an extra level of betrayal.
It's very similar to what happened with Warren Ellis (although Ellis always marketed himself as a "mad bastard" and not the nicest guy you'd ever want to have tea with, so it shocked people less).
It was all over my timeline; I think people believe the victims & aren’t ignoring this. But it just came out yesterday, and people may be reluctant to drive traffic to a transphobic media source. Once it’s reported out by reputable media you’ll see more of it.
This is genuinely upsetting because the movie Coraline meant so much for me, and to find the guy who wrote the original novel is just another of these pieces of shit... and also a lot of the stuff described here is really triggering for me.
Fuck him. I hope everyone knows what a monster he is.
Tbh. i'm a bit confused. I try to read up on the whole thing (because right-wing-podcasts usually aren't the most trustworthy sources) and i struggle to find out where Gaimans "answer" comes from.
Did he reply to a News Portal? Is there an interview of sorts? He's suspiciously quiet on bsky.
Everything i can find just circles back to the Podcast again, which makes Double-ckecking the source kinda hard.
But if his "excuse" really was exactly this "oh No No. It was consensual and she just misremembers".... Screw the guy
