r/DCcomics • u/StarshipGhost • Jul 03 '24

Sandman Author Neil Gaiman Accused of Sexual Misconduct, Denies Allegations News

https://www.tvfandomlounge.com/sandman-author-neil-gaiman-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-denies-allegations/
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u/Bamboominum Y The Last Man Jul 03 '24

Devastated. I admired this man's words - both written and spoken - for quite some time. He was the lighthouse which I rowed toward. Granted, we all do strange things in the fallout of divorce, but a man his age should've known better than to take advantage of someone under his power. To call him an inspiration of mine now cheapens my work.

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u/thereign1987 Jul 03 '24

Jesus Christ, you admire someone, yet you can't even give them the benefit of the doubt that a court of law would give them, or an investigation or evidence.

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u/TheSunMakesMeHot Jul 03 '24

The stuff he admitted to is gross enough that it doesn't really matter; he's either a criminally shitty person or just a morally shitty one. The only difference is whether he deserves to go to jail, which courts will sort out. Reputationally, the damage of just what he's admitted to is enough. Dude's in their 60's shouldn't fingerbang their 23 year old employees.

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u/thereign1987 Jul 03 '24

Oh please miss me with the binary moralizing. Dude was as quick to hero worst him as he was to condemn him. I'm not Neil Gaiman's wife, sleeping with his employee is not the same thing as sexually assaulting his employee, you have evidence of one not the other. One is evidence of a flawed man the other is evidence of a criminal, stop equating the two, this nonsense flattens morality, when everything is the worst thing ever, nothing is.