So much worse.

I don’t... I’m not really sure... wait, what?

Okay, there are no subtitles and I can’t hear what’s going on. Can someone please tell me what the dialogue is?

Okay, once again, it’s not about the infidelity, it’s about the gas lighting. It’s about manipulating someone and convincing them they’re crazy for suspecting you of doing something wrong when you’re doing something wrong.

I don’t think anyone can argue: the greatest strength of his, by far, which is so far beyond all his others to the point that it does (and should) overshadow the rest: is facilitating the greater talents of others. That’s how he ended up with such a strong writer’s room, and such a great crop of directors (and gave us…

And Eliza. I can’t remember where I saw n interview with Eliza where she was saying she was a bit ‘needy’ and Joss was ‘there for her’ or something. He even I will try to find it. There is this gross interview, though, on how offended Joss was at the choices Eliza was making for films so he ‘staged an intervention’.

You don’t even have to look at recent stuff - a lot of the so-called ‘feminism’ of his stuff - Buffy included - is super problematic.

It’s not the cheating that has people so upset, it’s the gas lighting. Joss has built a career off feminism - he’s appropriated it, he’s commodified it, and he’s repackaged and sold it to increase his own brand name. When something comes with a Whedon label, there is an idea of ‘feminism’ attached to it. His brand of…

Yeah - the network tried to convince Carter to fire her when she got pregnant but Carter was like ‘screw you. I’ll put her in more scenes now.’

Really, don’t watch past that episode - it’s just absolutely revolting how bad the show gets. I’ll never forgive Joss for what he did to Cordy, I just won’t. Even when I was early 20s watching this, I was thinking, ‘some shit had to go down behind the scenes - I feel like he’s trying to kill Charisma Carpenter, not…

I’ve always had a big problem with Joss - I remember watching an interview with him saying he felt he needed to give a ‘voice’ to the girl in the alley in the horror films. And I remember thinking, as a teenager, ‘yeah, but who gives you the right to give a woman her voice?’ And I’ve been skeptical of his work ever…

I think her story makes perfect sense. I’ve long been a critic of Joss’s material, as so much of it is so very, very problematic. I’ve also always said I had a problem with holding Joss up as this ‘feminist hero genius’ image he and fans have created for himself and implanted over all of his work, because the minute…

As I said above, it’s not the cheating it’s the gas lighting. Also, Whedon has built his career on the image of feminism: he has commodified it, he has sold it as part of his brand, he has utilised feminism as a platform to sell his work and to sell himself. So if he gaslighted her, if he spent years convincing her…

It’s not so much the cheating as it is the gas-lighting that’s the problem, here. Also, this is relevant because Whedon has built his career on the image of feminism: he has commodified it, he has sold it as part of his brand, he has utilised feminism as a platform to sell not only himself, but his work.