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"Clarke himself was gay" Maybe it no longer needs to be said in this day and age, but Clarke was accused, credibly, of being a pedophile (or, to diminish it wi
by readthenotes1 7mo ago
"Clarke himself was gay"
Maybe it no longer needs to be said in this day and age, but Clarke was accused, credibly, of being a pedophile (or, to diminish it with a technicality, hebephile).
It is not quite as abhorrent/chilling as the also credible accusations against Marion Zimmer Bradley--but only because she was teamed up with a Jeffrey Epstein like character.
- selcuka 7mo ago> Clarke was accused, credibly, of being a pedophile Genuinely curious, where does the credibility come from? As far as I can remember it turned out to be an outright slander by a tabloid paper.
- hermitcrab 7mo agoIt is covered a bit here: https://www.theguardian.com/books/1999/sep/12/sciencefictionfantasyandhorror.arthurcclarke https://www.theguardian.com/books/1999/sep/12/sciencefiction... No idea if he was as much of an insufferable egomaniac as that article makes out. Some decades ago I think it was assumed that homosexuality and paedophilia were pretty much the same thing. Hopefully we are a bit more enlightened now.
- MBCook 7mo ago> Some decades ago I think it was assumed that homosexuality and paedophilia were pretty much the same thing. Yeah that’s still a thing, unfortunately.