There's Been Some Discourse Going Around That Tries To Connect Neil Gaiman Writing About Problematic

There's been some discourse going around that tries to connect Neil Gaiman writing about problematic things and him being awful to mean that everyone who writes that kind of thing is also awful or should be placed under suspicion.

Correlation is not causation. You could just as easily blame the fact that he wrote about mythology and fairytales. It has the same amount of weight as blaming dark subjects.

The truth is, there have been tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of authors who write/have written about dark/problematic/complicated subjects who have never hurt a soul and who never will.

Now, you could say people who have endured trauma and abuse are more likely to write about dark subjects. I'm not positive but I think this bears out in statistics. But again, the vast majority of people who have suffered abuse and whose past abuse informs their writing do NOT go on to perpetuate that cycle of violence.

I know we all wish that predators were easy to spot. But if they were, they wouldn't be predators. They'd be criminals operating in broad daylight.

The disturbing fact is that truly bad people who operate for a long time are incredibly hard to spot. They survive by manipulating those around them into providing cover for them and carefully craft personas to make it difficult to accuse them of wrongdoing. They will also use fame and money as a shield and choose victims with the least ability to fight back.

Using what happened in your crusade against dark topics and your push for censorship in fiction is incredibly disrespectful to the victims and risks making writers part of a witch hunt.

It also makes it harder to spot actual predators because it perpetuates the idea that these people have easy tells. They do not. That's what makes them monsters.

In retrospect, can we pick out certain themes in his work that aligns with the allegations against him and hints at who he really was? Yes, but hindsight is 20/20. Someone else could have written about the same subjects and been a saint of a human being.

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UNPOPULAR OPINION: I don't care ab what yall say the movies were good. They’re way more beginners friendly (even thought most people who would watch probaly already knew a bit about greek mythology they explained to the ones who wouldn’t know), they had one of the Goddess speak Greek, they had a Greek Actress to play a Goddes and they actually used the Greek letters rigth ( they didn't use D's as A's or S's as E's >wich is one of the things that walways annoys me in American TV who decides to use Greece/Greek as purely a Aesthetic)

They had things different than the books? Yes but a lot of adaptations suffer from it, when we read a book we get an inside of the Characters mind and the only way of achiving in movies and tv series would be by using V.O narration that gets boring really fast and becomes a gateway to tell instead of showing (First Rule: Show don't Tell)

In the movie they show the gods not being good parents but they still had scenes when we could see they cared for their children so we could see way Luke would want war but we also see that is way more extreme solution than the problem. In the Series (SPOILER FOR THE NEWEST EPISODE) we see Athena letting Echidna and the chimera inside her Temple, a place that should've been a safe heaven for these 3 (2 and a half) kids just bc she didn't liked Percy sending the Medusa's head to them ( Yes is a great comeback to Medusa's "i wasn't like you i was you" line wich is great in a story telling but i'm still icked that they used a Roman version on a "Greek" show) what makes Luke wanting war and dethroning the gods a way more accurate response to their neclect.

Over all i just feel like the movies had a bigger care to make they look and feel like Greeks and the show is only using it for aesthetics (what was probably also the reason on the books)


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