I’m just gonna say it, this Joss Whedon fella seems like a real jerk.

So to sum up:

DARVO

Step one: ask your publicist and your lawyer if you should consent to the interview.

Well he is on firm ground in saying that the culture of Hollywood for a long time has enabled showrunners to be abusive monsters. That does not make HIM a good person however 

The thing that really gets me is that he’s a skilled writer, but he can’t see how this narrative is unfolding.

I don’t think “everyone else is wrong, and I’m right” gets as much credit as it should for red-flagging a narcissistic dipshit.  Cosby, Weinstein, Mr. Big, Whedon, the list goes on and on.  

I wanna know so bad

I had a feeling his ego wouldn’t allow him to make the smart choice and let this go, and sure enough he not only gets in a bunch of little passive-aggressive digs in the course of “praising” his accusers (which FYI, when you do that while trying to make yourself look like the “bigger person”, it really makes it look…

Oh? He said he didn’t do it? I guess that settles it lol

He also takes shots at everyone mentioned, even when being ostensibly complimentary. Carpenter fumbles her lines, Gadot doesn’t speak English well, Fisher can’t act and is evil. If people are weaponizing every little thing, well...

Ultimately, if most of the people you work with on multiple projects are independently…

“...he felt he ‘had’ to sleep with beautiful young women he was surrounded by and was ‘powerless’ to resist.” When the reporter laughed, Whedon replied, “I’m not actually joking.”

It was a great demonstration “getting out of the way and letting the interviewee to the work”.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: never put a nerd in charge of anything.

“I don’t threaten people. Who does that?”

The number of times in a single article where he essentially has to say that someone is just remembering an interaction wrong is (not) astonishing. Sounds like a clear case of someone shocked they are meeting so many assholes all day long.

Whenever someone has to repeatedly tell you how nice they are, that’s a secret clue that they’re actually not very nice.

So, HE says he’s one of the nicer showrunners that has ever been.

“People had been using every weaponizable word of the modern era to make it seem like I was an abusive monster”