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Ugh can someone please give me the tldr on Neil fucking Gaiman while I rewatch The Killing Type music video Amanda Palmer made about him
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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...
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and then tried to lead the crowd in an impromptu session of "forgive your rapist" and was trying to "come on!" everyone who booed and tried to sit it out. We all left vowing to not even play her ass on spotify
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excuse me...an impromptu session of WHAT?????
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I was livid: like a big through line of the show was about a very abusive relationship she was in, dovetailed into vague implications of complicity that were honestly already losing the crowd, and finally at the climax of her story, was like, "everybody get up! Who's been assaulted in their life?"
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once it became clear what she was trying to reach for SO MANY people sat down SO FAST, some were booing
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I was at the Seattle show where VERY FEW people were on her side
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my God. and the way she drops something as triggering as "forgive your rapist" and then goes "I want to keep performing my show" everything I learn about her is awful lmao
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Lmao why am I not surprised she has a Substack
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