Mir @miriam.lol

BUT WE HAVE TO GIVE HIM THE BENEFIT OF DOUBT No we don’t. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck it’s probably a cishet dude that doesn’t understand consent

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Taka Hanazawa @takahanazawa.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 12:29 UTC

I just found out that in his own statement he acknowledges that the accuser was his employee at the time. Employees can't consent to sexual relationships!!!

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Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] - in my Brain Damage arc @alexandraerin.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 12:19 UTC

Yeah, we super don't. "Presumption of innocence" is a legal standard for criminal courts and doesn't eveb mean a person is innocent, it just means the law is constrained from punishing even the guilty without proof. I'm not the law and my opinion is not a punishment

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Luther M. Siler @markedlyabnormal.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 12:51 UTC

When *his* version of the story is beyond the pale I'd say "benefit of the doubt" has been satisfied anyway.

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Glen @vaguebiscuit.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 18:02 UTC

If a terf website just made up a story about me out of whole cloth, including statements I've never made, I'd probably just say so and sue them. Going radio silent is what I'd do on advice of a lawyer when facing potential criminal proceedings

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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 12:23 UTC

I mean... he himself admitted to having an affair with a woman 40 years his junior, whom he employed and who lived in his house. The fucked-up power dynamics here are already overloading the EEK meter, and that's just from Gaiman's DEFENSE.

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