I expect the interviewer was diligently checking to be sure his recording device of choice was functioning.

I mean any time you can respond to someone from a different country’s accusations by saying “Well she doesn’t even speak good English!” you’ve just gotta do it. It’s the only way to save face, really.

I think it was Liz Sandifer who dubbed this the Chris Clarement Effect: that weird moment when the thing you’re horny for just happens to fit into the zeitgeist in a way that is materially progressive despite that fact that your motivations are minimally 95% boner-related.

His last project was actually The Nevers, which had a mixed reception but I remember being surprised to read was enjoying some amount of audience success.

It also echoes the bizarre excuse he gave to his wife that she shared in her letter, about being a cursed greek god surrounded by things he couldn’t touch.

See also: the first Charlie’s Angels movie with Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, and Lucy Liu. Or the Spice Girls. In the late ‘90s and well into the ‘00s, a lot of pop-feminism was big on “reclaiming” women’s sexuality from horny men, in a way that didn’t really challenge the emerging bro culture (or, if you’re British,…

As is clear from the comments here, that interview is genuinely worth reading as Jesus Christ. And despite groaning seeing the nicest showrunners quote in this write up, it is even more staggering in the actual article. Like it happened during a phone interview long after the initial interviews, which means Whedon did…

So this must be what it feels like to be a Harry Potter fan...

Somehow that Gal Gadot part was especially galling as even before that she had done a lot of international press and acted in several English speaking movies. So to pull the ‘She just doesn’t understand English that well’ card was such an absolutely baffling move to make.

I mean, yes and also it’s larger than that?

Oh, Whedon is done. I was a fan, and I will still defend a lot of his work, even acknowledging its flaws (I don’t subscribe to the “Buffy was sexist all long, you all got deceived!” school of thought. Buffy was a progressive show...for 1997. But thanks in part to shows like Buffy, our standards are higher now. And…

and I am defiantely one of the smartest people in my family

Did you not SEE the part where he said he’s one of the nicer showrunners?

It feels like the right play here is to keep your head down, enjoy your expensive home in Santa Monica, wait for the culture to be distracted by other things over the next year or two, then try and find something relatively low-profile once the temperature has been lowered a bit. Americans are capable of moving on…

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

“If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you’re the asshole.”

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

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.