Saffron ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
TV, movies, web media--this thread is the home for any Joss projects that don't already have their own threads, such as Dr. Horrible.
Speaking of sad but no surprise at all news, Kai Cole's essay about Joss' cheating ways should come as a shock to no one, but damn. Another potentially heroic character has feet of clay.
I suppose everyone has their issues but it would have been so much better if he hadn't vaunted himself as a feminist icon.
what bugs me the most was the asshole-ish letter he wrote her after they broke up.
sadly, not surprised that a man cheated when he had the opportunity and power.
But, being such a jerk to his wife was the kicker.
The whole blaming the patriarchy, and mansplaininess, of that letter was so hugely chokingly hypocritical, I can't even.
what bugs me the most was the asshole-ish letter he wrote her after they broke up.
I think this is it for me, too. It reminds me of the letter published in Patricia Neal's memoir, where Roald Dahl admitted his affair with her nurse and also blamed her for breaking up their marriage because she couldn't live with him being with the nurse for awhile.
The whole blaming the patriarchy, and mansplaininess, of that letter was so hugely chokingly hypocritical, I can't even.
So much more eloquently put.
blamed her for breaking up their marriage because she couldn't live with him being with the nurse for awhile.
Wow. It's as if they can't hear the sound of the words rattling around in their heads.
t's as if they can't hear the sound of the words rattling around in their heads.
Oh they can hear them and to them they make sense. That's the problem.
Well, shit.
Why do people have to be terrible?
(To be clear, not you people, just people in general and Joss specifically.)
I'm disappointed and sad that he was such a mansplaining manipulative jerk wad to her. But I'm not really surprised about any of it.
What he did to her is basically, as I understand it, what my ex-not!husband did to me. I completely believe she has an anxiety disorder now.
I still like his work, no more or less than before, but I don't like him anymore. Alas.
Yeah, the bloom had been fading off that rose for me with every interview for years now. But Buffy is still my all-time favorite TV show, and I'll always be grateful that it put me in contact with at least half of the friends I currently have.