First, screw these assholes and the culture that allows them to thrive while the people they victimize suffer personal and career damage for not staying silent. I believe in second chances. But people who are serial victimizers already had their fucking second chance.
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I've seen too many talented, brilliant women have to change their entire career path, often uprooting from their homes, because the publishers didn't protect them. So we lose some of the best editors and creators, and we keep the serial abusing trash? How does that make sense?
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If I count on my fingers the brilliant editors who left or moved over this stuff, I run out of fingers far sooner than I run out of names. Editors who are a DREAM to work with. Who only want to make great comics.
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I don't want to bring up their names without permission. Hopefully you know them already. Hire them, start making this an industry that wants to do better, and not just bandage up a doddering ol' perv's network for creeps and losers.
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I am not an intern and I am not going to stay quiet. If you are at a con and someone's hassling you, come to my table and we'll watch and get help. When you're ready to go public, I will support you.
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And to be very clear, if you're one of these abusers, I don't care what your gender or sexuality is, I don't care what your position of power is or what you publish, don't expect me to be a safe harbor, because I will absolutely not be that.
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Also, blaming all of this on alcohol or 'nerdy social awkwardness' is horseshit, because a predator is a predator. That's it for now. All my love and awe to the people who have spoken up. I hope we do better for you from now on.
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The whole treatment of that situation is just fucking ghastly even in comparison to what's been circulating- like, just who decided that he was that indispensable? Why haven't they all been given the axe?
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The Superman thing is so egregious — the only people that punishes are women, who don’t get to work on the company’s flagship character. I can’t believe no one saw that as a lawsuit waiting to happen. Well, no, I can believe it because... comics
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That was my exact experience trying to pitch a Lobo book hahaha
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