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.