We'll soon see who stands on their principles and who remains silent and complicit. Allegedly, this has been an open secret for years. Which of his peers will now speak out?
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
A couple of kind of terrible people found each other, caused their respective terribleness to be more visible and did absolutely no growing when they split.
yes these allegations are real and credible, -yes and- his marriage to Amanda itself was a red flag. I went to one of her spoken word tours with a few friends who have known her personally: she made a racist joke, made jokes at the expense of the people who called her put on the racist joke...
I don't know the most about her, but some of my friends were super into her (and I loved some of her music) she was indie goth rock and also likes to use the n word and just in general be like "I am being super offensive but like not in the way you think" but of course it's in the way you think
She lives in my area and owns/runs an important venue (Graveside Variety in Woodstock NY), which results in a lot of people in the local music scene being far more diplomatic about her than they should.
I remember when this was being discussed on twitter, and the cognitive dissonance between her persona and his seemed so bizarre. I liked American Gods, but not enough to pursue more of his writing.