I know from direct personal experience that Goofus is a liar, a coward, and utterly treacherous. I don’t watch or read anything by Goofus because I studiously avoid anything having to do with Goofus. I can’t speak to Goofus’ abilities as a writer other than to say the few times I read their work, it seemed professional and competent. Behavior bad enough on occasion to cause physical harm. Behavior bad enough on occasion to warrant criminal prosecution of Gallant had police seen the behavior or any victims pressed charges. Gallant also mentioned their own bad behavior several times in the public record, bad behavior documented and reported by eyewitnesses and victims. Those cases involve Gallant voicing opinions based on their best knowledge at the time, and later when the truth of said individuals and organizations came out, Gallant either muted or recanted those opinions. Gallant also made mistakes in praising and defending some people and some organizations who later proved unworthy of such praise and defense. To their credit, Gallant grew as a person, and in many cases learned better and did better as the 1960s segued into the 1970s and 80s. Gallant’s writing career proved long enough for some stories that expressed ideas and attitudes perfectly acceptable in the 1950s and 60s to be rendered…well, let’s be generous and say passe’ 70 years later. Willing to go the extra mile for those he felt needed the help. A fighter - and more often than not a fighter for good causes, not just for the sake of fighting. Gallant could fairly be described as a mercurial person. It would not be an overstatement to say said body of work remains enormously influential. Gallant produced an impressive body of work. I know / knew two writers, one living, one dead, contemporaries of one another, alike in certain ways, different in others, but similar enough for an apples-to-apples comparison.
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