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OPINION - Rachel Johnson: I broke the Neil Gaiman story, but I never wanted him cancelled like this 2025/01/28 00:00
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- URL: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/celebrities/opinion-rachel-johnson-i-broke-the-neil-gaiman-story-but-i-never-wanted-him-cancelled-like-this/ar-AA1xZ9CB
- Posted: 2025-01-28 (date: 2025/01/28)
- Topics: Neil Gaiman
- Summary: «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. My point was the compelling public interest in reporting her allegations, and others like hers.» [...] «What the police call IPSV – or intimate partner sexual violence – is the most underreported crime. Women don't report it [...] because they don't think they will be believed.» What's the point of "being believed" if no action is taken against the perpetrator? Did she, perhaps, just want to generate a lot of publicity for her work, without upsetting anyone's status quo?
- author: Rachel Johnson
Commentary
- sloanefragment.bsky.social «she expected the left, especially trans ppl, to defend him. instead we were outraged by how monstrous he is» «she's basically admitting that none of them actually give a shit about rape, or survivors, at all and they only consider it as a weapon to be wielded against their perceived enemies»
- comment: «also just really, really, highlights how none of them know anything about trans ppl at all. i remember a couple ppl being like 'well, its a terf podcast, so idk...' but the overwhelming majority of trans ppl were instantly outraged by the revelations. we didn't care about the source.»
- comments:
- «I'll admit to withholding judgment because of the source. I don't put it past TERFs to lie about people and fake evidence; after all, they do it all the time about trans people. / Once it was corroborated by better sources, though, yeah, fuck that guy.»
- «And of course the TERFs are now trying to defend him from "Cancel Culture". Because at their core, they are still awful, right wing shit bags.»
- comment: «They saw that their friends totally hung onto Rowling despite her being a denier of Nazi crimes against humanity, so figured that we'd TOTALLY support Gaiman despite him being a child abusing serial rapist. / Big oops on their part. Not everybody is as selfish as they are.»
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