This article doesn’t mention one of the worst details - the fact that more than one women has said he did this stuff with his young son nearby. At one point in the same bed.

The bar is so low it’s on the ground for being “pro women” in the sci fi / fantasy genre

Yeah it’s been years since I read that book but I also remember the protagonist being real creepy towards the first love interest in the village and her being portrayed as a bitch even though the only thing she did “wrong” was be hot and not interested in the main character

Obviously not, but maybe people wouldn’t have worshipped him as a feminist ally if they knew how to critically engage with the gender politics in the art they consume

She betrayed those girls and all of her own values for him, and in return he bled her dry in a drawn out divorce. Now her public reputation is trashed too.
Goes to show - If you think you can earn special treatment by throwing other women under the bus think again. It always backfires

To be clear I meant that this is the silver lining of the article not of the abuse itself. I don’t think it’s appropriate to look on the bright side of rape.

This time last year Gaiman would have been described as a feminist too 🤮
The bar is not high enough

Idk it has been a pet peeve of mine for years that this guy was touted as a progressive hero when the misogyny in some of his work made me physically ill. Sorry if it’s obnoxious to hear it but it was also obnoxious watching him smugly lap up credit for his female representation for years

The misogyny is always in the art as well. Every time.

Right ? It has been my pet peeve for years that this man and his work has been widely recommended for good female representation when he has written some of the most violently misogynistic stuff I’ve ever read

Shows how low the bar was. Some of his stories had female characters that weren’t just props! Give him a medal. It always bugged me that he was considered woke when the nada arc in Sandman was straight up rape fetishisation

This isn’t to defend Biden btw I don’t really have a strong opinion on that one way or the other

It is morally hypocritical to protect your own son - using a platform bought by a billionaire to increase hate speech and misinformation and a conservative world view is ok tho

Not going for you personally because I disagree with your originally point. I agree with most of what you say. But just really disappointed with how complacent everyone was with X for the last year. Nice that it seems to be falling apart now but feels a bit like too little too late

And the hypocrisy of continuing to publish free content, and add to the social capital, of X, a platform that has been unapologetically boosting republic voices before the election, spreading misinformation, and stubbornly allowing hate speech

I really see the appeal of wanting to kick kids off the internet and force them to form their views on the world from interacting with it themselves, but I can also see that banning them is not practical - that cat is out of the bag already