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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Ha, I know that age group. It is both adorable and eye-rolly in equal measure.
I read the entire article Tom linked in Press. Why I continued when I was getting more annoyed as I read is a mystery. My take ended up being, "it is possible I was as an ass on occasion, but I have all these reasons, and no way they aren't lying anyway". Whatever, you poor misunderstood dude. Yuck.
whoooo, that Joss article is not good. For him, I mean.
That Vice article? Really, no. But it helps put a lot of stuff into context for me.
And I will continue to have a fondness for that type of dialog, I suspect.
None of it will keep me from giggling at Pangs once a year.
Oh, wait, this is a different article. This is... yikes.
Still, she wondered if those who’d been hurt by him had misunderstood him. Whedon was not the first boss in the history of moving pictures to make a writer cry.
I'm sorry, a workplace in which people CRY is not being well-managed. I won't go so far as to say it's necessarily toxic, but it's not right. If you are a manager and people cry for reasons having to do with the workplace, that's on you.
Yeah, the talk of the day is the Vulture article. I posted about it in the Buffy thread, because I didn't know where else to put it.
What's the Vice article, Consuela?
That was more about his writing than his behavior, here: [link]
Here's a great article about managing to heal when someone toxic makes something you love: [link]
Whedon was not the first boss in the history of moving pictures to make a writer cry.
This is also because so much of the entertainment industry is just broken and toxic.
Thanks for the article, Consuela.
One thing that the Vulture article mentioned was that Buffy was considered feminist, but wasn't really. And, I think that claim suffers a bit from being made in 2022. When Buffy came out, I think it was pretty feminist for its milieu. But culturally we've moved past it. Which is a good thing, but cultural context does matter.
Joss can be a terrible boss, especially to the women on his staff and cast, and still write stuff that's feminist. People write themes they aren't personally living all the time.