Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Tuesday, 14 January, 2025
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 months agothese are accusations of serious crimes
let’s wait for the trial ,
regarding his books , I read Sandman among other books, gives the rape scenes a bit more context , 🤨 hence the accusations don’t surprise me.
the question is, who covered for him, who allowed him to get away with it for so long ,
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 months ago
TW fictional rape/abuse
If it makes you feel any better, in that particular scenario Dream did develop empathy after his own captivity and end that when he found out. It was presented as a bad thing - he would go on to free Calliope and torment her rapist as punishment. Nada was an abusive situation but Dream did eventually realise his behaviour was monstrous, free her, and apologise. (Alan Moore’s work was much rapier. Sometimes disturbingly so.)
This isn’t a defence or any reflection on real world events though. Whether or not his writing condemned rape and abuse there are plenty of ‘feminist’ men who are disingenuous or dangerous.
I tried to read the Vulture article but had to use the reader to get around a paywall and it was extremely incomplete - so I don’t think I was able to read all of the content and don’t know the details. Maybe that’s a good thing.
I hoped all of this was a horrible mistake but after 9 women coming forward it couldn’t really be. How awful.
Catfish@aussie.zone 2 months ago
There are unpaywalled links in both r/books and twoxchromosomes if you can stomach the details. It’s bad and there is probably more.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I’m drawn to read it but also I probably really shouldn’t.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 months ago
so he knows it’s wrong and feels some guilt
in fact they all do, that’s why they do these things in secret
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I don’t know what to think. The whole thing is disturbing and awful and that’s without details