BDSM Culture and Neil Gaiman

Is anyone following this Neil Gaiman thing? I was having a think after I read the Vulture article today that guys like him are the reason the perception of bdsm and kink is the way it is. Big high profile dude does horrible thing involving kink and all the predators decide they can too.

Then you get the newbies thinking the insane heavy stuff is all there is and it leaves us softies even more disconnected from the community at large. I donno I just feel fucked up about the whole thing and that we all get lumped in with them.