I'm not defending her—again, I'm not a fan, read nothing by her. I'm just looking at/for the evidence. It doesn't surprise me that a straight woman in her 80s wouldn't like the singular "they," and it doesn't make her a transphobe. And her busting on JKR for _her_ transphobia is a counter-argument.

Is there still a Gaiman fan club?

I've never read any of her work, so I'm not asking as a fan. I just want to see receipts when there's so much AI slop and unsourced claims on the Internet today. Thank you for telling me about the "start your own publishing house" thing, which I hadn't known about.

Straight white males—like Elon Musk?

I literally Googled "is Joyce Carol Oates racist" and didn't find the smoking gun you seem to think is out there. Mostly what I found was her dunking on Robert Frost's racism.

So if you think her alleged racism should be plain to see, it's not.

What’s the evidence she’s racist?

This one, too:

www.avclub.com/joyce-carol-...

She’s a transphobe? This story seems to say otherwise:

judedoyle.medium.com/joyce-carol-...

I'm getting a 403 error from that link.

If people actually understood how willing our government is to go to war with its own people simply for demanding equal rights, I think a lot more of us would be ready for war.

But if Season 5 is an “Oops, all Cousin Richie” season, I wouldn’t mind at all.