As the news of the release of a fifth podcast concerning yet another alleged Neil Gaiman victim coming forward breaks, a Gaiman fan wonders why a celebrity with Gaiman’s notoriety would resort to grooming and preying upon underage fans instead of openly embracing his legitimate socio-sexual opportunities.
What I still have trouble wrapping my head around is why the manipulation and grooming? JHFC, NG fandom is/was so large the number of legal age goth chicks of his type also in BDSM was high enough he could have had them queued up around the block available in shifts day and night with enthusiastic consent anytime he were in town. But no NG had to take the grooming/control/abuse route and completely destroy his legacy as well an innocent lives.
There are two reasons, one SSH-related and one that is rather darker. The darker reason, and at this point it is only conjecture, is that Neil Gaiman may be somewhat of a chronophile with a particular interest in girls between the ages of 14 and 17. This is pretty strongly supported by his writing, as he regularly betrays a suspiciously strong interest in writing about older men who are attracted to underage young women, such as Door in Neverwhere. The art always betrays the artist.
Author’s Note: The fact that Door is written as an “ageless” being that merely happens to present as an underage teen girl is not at all exculpatory, but rather, particularly damning, because it means that the author knew exactly what he was doing and how it looked, and he was attempting to provide himself with a degree of plausible deniability for it.
An older man, whether he is in his 30s or his 60s, cannot openly pursue a girl in her middle teens. It’s neither legal nor socially acceptable. Therefore, the grooming-and-manipulation route is the only available option for a man with such criminal inclinations.
However, this can only be part of the reason, since most of the women whom Gaiman is alleged to have assaulted were of legal age and were therefore perfectly legitimate targets of his sexual interest. One woman, in particular, was in her mid-50s; chronophilia cannot explain Gaiman’s alleged interest in her, indeed, she was even more age-appropriate than Gaiman’s most recent ex-wife wife.
[Correction: according to the fifth Tortoise Media podcast, despite all the talk about their “divorce”, Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer are still married.]
Those who are SSH-aware already know why Gaiman preferred an indirect approach, of course. As a Gamma, particularly as an Apex Gamma with situational Alpha status, Gaiman would be hypersensitive to any hint of rejection, particularly from young women who are around the age at which Gaiman’s psychosexual maturity is frozen, which appears to be around 15. No matter how many legal-age Goth chicks might be willing to accept his attentions, Gaiman’s Gamma delusion bubble could not handle the implicit rejection from however many would not do so.
All of Gaiman’s alleged predations were designed, first and foremost, to protect Gaiman’s very fragile ego. That’s why he pursued wounded birds, the sort of women who were psychologically or situationally unable to tell him no. Like all predators, the Gamma always prefers the psychologically sick and wounded because they make for easier prey that is much less likely to harm his very tender feelings.
UPDATE: Fandom Pulse has more. Apparently there may be a seventh potential accuser out there.
A friend of a friend stayed overnight in his house and he warned her that he might wander on Ambien. She woke up to find him in her room and she didn't go into specifics but she was upset and it was implied that he was groping her.
It appears as if there is a premeditated plausible deniability pattern beginning to become clearly discernible here.
Isn't the short answer that he's a Jew, and hence deeply into degeneracy by genetic impulse?
Does anyone else here not GAF about Neil Gayman?