He sexually assaulted multiple women, including underaged girls, and wove the encounters into his books (Sandman is one of the books listed as an example. the woman a certain scene is about came forward) I've only read 1 Gaiman book (American Gods). I'm not well versed on his other books. Gaiman made a statement last week about the allegations.
"I was emotionally unavailable while being sexually available, self-focused and not as thoughtful as I could or should have been. I was obviously careless with people's hearts and feelings, and that's something that I really, deeply regret. It was selfish of me. I was caught up in my own story and I ignored other people's.[...] I don't accept there was any abuse. To repeat, I have never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity with anyone.""Breaking The Silence"
OK. I think we need to be very careful and get drawn into some battle of "He said, she said" that seems to be going around the internet. I googled "Neil Gaiman sexual assault". All the results that came up say "allegations", and Neil denied them. Now it's up to the police -- or the courts? -- to decide. So, I think it'd be unfair to comment on any of this, or to say "This happened" or "That happened". If Neil did do this, then he should be punished. If not, then the other party should be punished for making false accusations. But for the moment, there's no proof of anything, so I think it'd be premature to comment. We simply don't know.
Literally no one is arguing here. No one said dude was good or bad. Both the article and his statement were shared. All i said was that it was a big topic. Whenever an author does something or dies, its always a big topic because librarians have to answer questions about it or either protect (the works of the author) or direct people to books by said author. It was a big thing when James Patterson said what he said (even bigger because the week he said it, he was coming to my library on his book tour). When JK Rowling made her tweets, it was a big thing in library world. And another thing, you are not the mod here.
Regarding the topic, and disregarding the things about Gaiman, I've always preferred being able to ask an informed human and getting good answers, to googling and trying to sort through the mass information you get. With the advent of Artificial Intelligence, the informed human becomes even more important, in my opinion. I just don't trust the AI to give me the right information, right now. This is also why message boards and forums still have a place in the world. You can ask real humans, who often have real expertise about different subjects and get much better answers than trying to google your way to information.
Neither am I. All I'm trying to say is that we should be very careful, that's all. I'm not trying to start an argument. I never said I was.
