Warning: Professional Gamma in Action
Don't try this at home, gentlemen
In addition to all of accusations of sex crimes that are now coming out concerning what is allegedly the comic book writer Neil Gaiman’s prolific 25-year history of harassing women, an anecdote from his past reveals both a) his SSH rank and b) his astonishing lack of Game.
One woman recounted how, after she had ignored multiple messages from Gaiman, he accosted her at her place of work, refusing to leave until she read a story he had written for her. “He had clearly just printed it off,” she told The Guardian - “the paper was still warm.” In the story, set in a fantastical world, the woman was portrayed as a sexually appealing “goblin wench” who worked at a medieval tavern.
“This story kept mentioning her ‘rump’, her green goblin rump,” she said. “And the wizard character, clearly supposed to be Gaiman, had cast some kind of sexual spell on her, so every couple of paragraphs she would start orgasming in front of the other tavern employees. There was a big non-consensual component to it.” Gaiman, she said, muttered “what sounded like Hebrew” while she read the story. “He was looking at me really intensely the whole time. It was really uncomfortable.”
Gaiman eventually left after the woman’s supervisor threatened to call the police, but would return later that afternoon asking to use the office printer.
Forget all of the perversions that litter Gaiman’s twisted works like Sandman, Coraline, and American Gods. Simply knowing that he was a Gamma with a serious sexual obsession that involved a non-consensual aspect to it would have been sufficient to inform the SSH-aware observer that any fame and success he would achieve would be guaranteed to lead to scandal, at the very least.
Unfortunately, since Gaiman’s youthful efforts in seduction predated the articulation of the Socio-Sexual Hierarchy by at least two decades, dozens of women have been subjected to his unique brand of courtship.
Now, obviously not all Gammas are this hapless or deranged. But one thing that most people contemplating #GaimanGate are going to miss is the way that, like the Harvey Weinstein case, it bolds, highlights, and underlines what is likely to happen when a Gamma male is provided high situational status that his psyche is by no means able to handle in a responsible, or even legal, manner.
UPDATE: I think you’ll all agree that this was the right time for Vibe Patrol to remix that instant classic, Mr. Tubcuddle. This is the Coraline’s Eyes mix.
UPDATE: Neil Gaiman has broken his months-long silence to claim that he never did nothing to nobody, and if he did, it was consensual. And based on the collective reaction in the r/NeilGaiman subreddit, not even his biggest fans are buying it.
A wise man once said regarding status or rank that if you’re not enough without it, you won’t be enough with it.
This is what low quality men do. When they have status, they do more of it.
"Muttering in Hebrew"? Good God above, Gaiman was trying to cast some Kabbalah spell?
We used to burn people like that at the stake, not so long ago. For good reason. At some point, regrettably, we started listening to all the "oy veys" and endless kvetching, and here we are.