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[Carrie Underwood]
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(Anonymous) 2025-02-01 02:21 am (UTC)(link)I have conflicted feelings on this, because on the one hand, abusers tend to be really good at image maintenance, so yeah, a lot of people can't tell. And it can be really destabilizing to realize that someone you like has done terrible things, which means that as a defense mechanism, people actively try not to realize it.
On the other hand, once you've had experience with abusers, it is possible to tell that something is off with some people. Hell, even when you haven't had that experience, there are some people who set off subtle alarms. My feeling is that we get taught to ignore those senses, or conversely, to overwhelm them by assuming everyone is a predator. We miss flags that we would have caught had we been schooled otherwise.
In the case of Gaiman, I know some people who've thought he was creepy for years. They probably have something to teach all of us.
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(Anonymous) 2025-02-01 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)Also a lot that people read as creepy behavior is just someone being mentally ill, or nd, or awkward or sheltered. None of this things are morally wrong