#source: Google ‘Neil Gaiman Israel’

[queerbauten]

Neil Gaiman is a Zionist, btw.

[freakytofu]

Podcasts take ages to put together (plus researching). Its unlikely it's in response to David Tennant because that was only a few days ago (it was probably in the works pre election announcement too)

Plus think about this in regards to the general public- are they going to go 'an author who's work david Tennant been in has been accused of sexual assualt? Hes so wrong for supporting trans rights!'

If someone was going to make stuff for TERF reasons, wouldnt they accuse a trans person?

(Also I'm so mad that a cishet guy being accused of rape has become a conversation about trans people. This sucks)

I never said it was in response to David Tennant directly. I understand how long it takes to produce and research articles and podcasts because I work in media/journalism.

I just think this is very advantageous for them in terms of SEO as these names are often associated with each other, and having a major streamer like Netflix drop information about Sandman yesterday means Neil Gaiman's name is probably doing well on Google Trends today. Google Discover picks news up and pushes it aggressively for about 48 hours, and Tortoise Media probably wants to ride that wave. And if not, it was very, very fortunate timing for them.

Think about it this way. If something like that podcast is as thoroughly researched as you say, they likely had this information ready to go the moment it was needed. How do we know the podcast wasn't recorded in advance, perhaps tweaked a little to sound more relevant, and then pushed at an opportune time?

I would not put it past someone to have said "we need something on X to go out now", and then the newsroom made it happen. The founder of Tortoise is James Harding, former BBC News director and editor of The Times (Rupert Murdoch's centre-right publication). This is a vocally pro-Israel Cambridge boy who is absolutely connected and this is the sort of "evergreen" story that isn't time-sensitive that can go out when it is most convenient. Breaking a big, exclusive story like this would be huge for them too because they rely on subscriber memberships.

I do not like that these possible SA victims' experiences have been co-opted for political purposes. I do not like that trans rights have been co-opted either. But the truth of the matter is that trans rights is a big point of debate in the upcoming UK General Election, and the UK public more or less just knows that Gaiman is a famous leftist author and trans rights supporter, and has vocally opposed Rowling and her ilk in the past. I would not be surprised if this was a calculated move, even if we the public can't fully see why the move is being made.

Again, I'm not excusing anything here, I'm only reminding people to pay attention to the source and context surrounding the news they consume.

Also, why the anon?

[majortomwaits]

wow, i didn't know about breaking the lockdown rules. thank you for bringing to my attention the thing about Despair. i never really thought about the Endless in Sandman as humans, so i always seen this character as a personificaton of how heavy and monstrous actual despair can be. i understand why people may see it as offensive. but i just did a quick google and i don't think it's fair to say he's a zionist. he replied to an ask on his tumblr saying that Israel has the right to exist and Palestine should be recognized as a state. He's against murder and stands with children and refugees.

https://www.tumblr.com/neil-gaiman/731454413532790784/hello-mr-gaiman-recently-an-old-tweet-of

'Israel has the right to exist' in itself is a zionist standpoint, so there's that. There is no centrism in this matter, that's some hard bullshit if I've ever seen it.

As for Despair, you obviously didn't look up how Gaiman came up with the character. He saw a picture of a fat woman, pretty much just existing, and went: 'That's despair.' (source: The Sandman Companion by Hy Bender, but that specific bit can be read right here).

[queerbauten]

Happy one-year anniversary to me being completely right

Neil Gaiman is a Zionist, btw.