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JK Rowling is so happy that people found someone else to hate.
https://deadline.com/2025/01/nail-gaiman-allegations-j-k-rowling-1236255597/
This is a very insightful article in general on the relationship between a reader and a monstrous author. It is vaguely #NeilGaiman related, but covers more than that.
I think it does a good job of capturing how I feel about it.
(I am, also, deeply and abidingly angry at Neil for being what he's shown himself to be)
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/18/nx-s1-5265623/neil-gaiman-sexual-abuse-allegations
This is from an article by arch-transphobe Graham Linehan, written about Neil Gaiman (alluding that he knew Gaiman was a sexual predator simply because he was pro-trans)....
Irrespective of his reprehensibly bigoted views, the overall conclusion I draw is that Linehan is a thoroughly unlikable & nasty piece of work....
#JohnScalzi hat sich letztes Jahr schon als Ausnahme erwiesen, weil er sich als langjähriger Freund von #NeilGaiman traute, öffentlich seine erste vorsichtige Reaktionen auf die Tortoise Media-Berichte zu Neils sexuellen Übergriffigkeiten zu teilen. Johns Blogeintrag von dieser Woche ist keine leichte Kost, aber beachtenswert.
Meine Verarbeitungs-Binsenweisheit: Privileg und Erfolg kann Mensch genauso zerformen wie Leid und Mangel.
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/01/15/taking-leave/
"The faux-feminist man who is accused of being a secret predator is by now, after the revelations of the Me Too movement, a familiar figure," writes @Vox's Constance Grady. Amid the latest allegations against author Neil Gaiman and actor Justin Baldoni, she writes about the phenomenon of men who build their public image on being good guys.
By the way, the trouble with whisper networks is that they cause people without social connections to be chosen as victims.
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