Oh, give me a break! No-one is that naive anymore, Rachel....
It was only after New York Magazine that Neil Gaiman issued his first public denial, called “Breaking the Silence” and repeated his position, one he had indirectly communicated to Tortoise, that he had “never engaged in unconsensual sex with anyone. Ever.”But that denial has not prevented Dark Horse Comics being the latest one of his publishers, streamers, or other platforms from dropping the author. In a post on X, Dark Horse Comics this week said: “Dark Horse takes seriously the allegations against Neil Gaiman and we are no longer publishing his works.”
The new Ten Minutes Hate - driven by social media pile-ons and requiring no 'evidence' beyond an accusation. And now the person responsible for bringing the accusation to light is all ‘not me, guv, my hands are clean!’
The point of me “breaking my silence” now here is to say that the blanket cancellation of Neil Gaiman was not my intention when I first heard Scarlett’s story, then the voices of four more females you hear in Master.
It might not have been, but you cannot possibly claim you weren't aware of the likely effect, can you?
Our intention with Master was to probe the greyest of grey areas – allegations of sexual abuse within an otherwise consensual relationship.What the police call IPSV – or intimate partner sexual violence – is the most underreported crime. Women don’t report it (even though marital rape has been on the statue book since 1992) because they don’t think they will be believed; they don’t want to think they’ve been abused and themselves as victims, they don’t want their partner, often the father of their children, to go jail. They very often send their alleged abuser loving messages, afterwards, that can be used as the crux of any defence. It’s…complicated.
Then maybe it should be for those in the justice system to unravel?
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The excuse doesn't fly. But had she admitted that she just wanted to 'punish' him for his alleged behaviour then that would encourge criticism from his friends and open further the risk of legal action. So the excuse is to protect herself. Not high minded at all.
This is just crazy. You can be in a sexual relationship and generally relationships are power imbalanced so the Guy, and it's always a guy insists on something sexual which is consented to even though she doesn't want to then years later it becomes rape because she didn't say No but wanted to but felt he would simply kick her to the curb and she didn't want that.
Same with this new law they are talking about with coercive behaviour. She says 'Buy me this.', he says 'I'm not paying for that.' she says 'I'll do this for you.', he says 'WhooHoo, OK then'. Next minute he is in court for coercive behaviour. I would guess almost every relationship has an element of coercive behaviour in it. To be honest most of them are women coercing men. 'Whats wrong.' 'Nothing, I'm fine.' Oh shit better get her some flowers or chocolates.
More Western men accelerate their current plan of running from women in droves. These sexual robots are going to be the preferred relationships for Western men moving on. Non western men will be fine.
Women are empowered, independent and don't need a man but are unable to make their own decisions because they feel powerless. Only in the West can we round this square.
Hopefully this will result in less fucking around before marriage but I suspect it will end up with an islamic type relationship. Well done women.
Maybe Trump will sort it out.
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