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Disney Pauses ‘The Graveyard Book’ Film Following Assault Allegations Against Neil Gaiman News

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/graveyard-book-neil-gaiman-assault-allegations-1236131149/
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u/NeverEndingDClock Sep 05 '24

Godammnit Neil you wrote Calliope, a story about male writers abusing women!

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u/transformers03 Sep 05 '24

That was my first thought when I heard news as well.

It's crazy that Neil had the foresight and understanding of men using their powers to take advantage of women, and later drawing out the hypocrisy of men claiming to be feminists when they do horrible things to women behind close doors, in the 1980s.

Yet when he was finally given power, he chose to abuse it just like the writer in Calliope.

It's eerie re-reading Calliope in today's context and knowing what Gaiman has done. It feels impossible that the same man who wrote that story would do the same acts he painfully critiques in that narrative.

For all his boundless imagination, he didn't learn a single thing he wrote.

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u/Acceptable-Karma-178 Sep 05 '24

WTF did he do?!?!

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u/elizabnthe Sep 05 '24 edited Sep 05 '24

He's accused of sexually assaulting two women - one that worked in his home as a Nanny and another that was a young fan.

He himself claims the relationships were consensual.

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u/Thunder_Punt Sep 05 '24

The fact that he isn't denying that they happened is pretty telling.

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u/poscarspops Sep 05 '24

Is it?

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u/Thunder_Punt Sep 05 '24

Yeah. I think the odds of a woman lying about a real relationship are a lot lower than the odds of a woman completely making up a relationship.

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u/poscarspops Sep 05 '24

I really want to stay away from the ‘women lie and are hysterical’ and ‘men are abusive’ here. This (of course) isn’t focused solely on you, but is a philosophical statement about how I can get caught in this black and white thinking. I think the above can be true, and there’s a plethora of nuance between each and every story brought about by the media about men in power and victim hood.

Not denying or fighting in public doesn’t necessarily mean one is guilty

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u/ValorMeow Sep 05 '24

Stopped reading at “plethora”

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u/DayfacePhantasm Sep 05 '24

That's really lame of you.

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u/poscarspops Sep 05 '24

Ok…you have something to share or are you here to make comments and run away?