What should we do about Neil Gaiman’s projects? Many are being paused or cancelled and it’s hard not to feel conflicted. Set aside the “separation of art and artist” debate and there’s still a glaring problem: a heap of people are going to lose their jobs because of one man. And if we’re going to rely on the morality of men to prop up an entire creative project I think history can teach us what’s likely to happen.

Recently two of my writer friends had two major projects in development with a production company headed by a man who got cancelled. So two women lost their big break because of one man. I don’t know the answer here — after all these men stand to gain from the projects if they go ahead. But I’m not sure obliging hundreds more people to bear the financial brunt or lose their big break is the solution we really need either.