>>6026564>>6026604Anyway, you can read about the Harvey Weinstein hashtag MeToo adjacent exploits and escapades of Joss Whedon in this definitive article. It is sort of obvious if you think about it (eg, Dollhouse is literally a sci-fi series about brain-wiping prostitutes)
https://www.vulture.com/article/joss-whedon-allegations.htmlI just think it was funny how Joss Whedon a pillar of sci-fi/horror/urban fantasy and highly influential creator of feminist empowerment iconography inevitably witnessed his female / LGBT fans turn on him in a Rene Girard style sacrifical scapegoating ritual act of vehement castigation. Also apparently he did some drugs
>On our second day of interviews, I asked Whedon about his affairs on the set of Buffy. He looked worse than he had the day before. His eyes were faintly bloodshot. He hadn’t slept well. “I feel fucking terrible about them,” he said. When I pressed him on why, he noted “it messes up the power dynamic,” but he didn’t expand on that thought. Instead, he quickly added that he had felt he “had” to sleep with them, that he was “powerless” to resist. I laughed. “I’m not actually joking,” he said. He had been surrounded by beautiful young women — the sort of women who had ignored him when he was younger — and he feared if he didn’t have sex with them, he would “always regret it.” Looking back, he feels shame and “horror,” he said. I thought of something he had told me earlier. A vampire, he’d said, is the “exalted outsider,” a creature that feels like “less than everybody else and also kind of more than everybody else. There’s this insecurity and arrogance. (...)>Whedon once wrote a line that could have served as a warning to all of us. In Firefly, one of the crew members, Jayne, accidentally tosses the spoils of a botched robbery into the hands of the town’s poor. Jayne is not a good man, but when he returns to the town years later, he sees its residents have erected a statue in his honor. When he confides to the crew’s captain that he’s unsettled by this development, the captain just stares into the distance. “It’s my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of ’em was one kinda sombitch or another,” he says. “Ain’t about you, Jayne. It’s about what they need.” 