: "Yeah. I read this, and just felt tired. You'd think that someone would actually manage not to be a creep, but no, fame+middle age apparently always manages to somehow "compel" people to become abusive predators."

@squirrelninja.bsky.social

Yeah. I read this, and just felt tired. You'd think that someone would actually manage not to be a creep, but no, fame+middle age apparently always manages to somehow "compel" people to become abusive predators.

Jul 06, 2024 at 10:26 UTC

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Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 10:53 UTC

Wasn't one of the reported relationships when Gaiman was 41? That's not really old enough for "middle age" to be a contributing factor.

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 11:55 UTC

Also it seems to me that the guys who get a rep for being "quirky" and "different" and who become cult favorites end up getting too high on their own reputations and come to believe they can do no wrong. (See also, Kevin Spacey.)

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Robert Szasz 𓅆 @rszasz.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 10:38 UTC

God damn trump all the more for saying it but the "when you're famous they let you" is something people who aren't 'total' fucking sociopaths sometimes take (unreasonably) as a substitute for consent. (Absolute monster sociopaths revel in the fact that it isn't consent)

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Emily @cat-appreciator.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 10:28 UTC

I find it bizarre, because at 38 I look at twenty-year-olds and I’m like, that is a baby.

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