i also saw them in Atlanta!

Entire groups of people aren’t monolithic, they’ll have different opinions, views and reactions to stuff. That’s why “I know a guy who isn’t offended, so noone should be” is never a good take.

When I saw them in Atlanta, they played Marching Theme.

Thanks for writing this. I remember when I finally listened to On Avery Island and thought “hell this is just as great as Aeroplane!” I haven’t listened to either in a long time and with this prompt I’ll be bothering my coworkers with it all day.

It’s easy to reinterpret it now but people had lost interest in his work since Age of Ultron. That’s when his old bonafides no longer worked to dispell all criticism.

I had a similar thought watching the ads for this. Men being angry they can’t control powerful women is a trope that comes up often in Whedon’s work. Only now do we know that he’s on the opposite side of it than we had thought.

No. While Apu was probably the most mature, well-rounded adult on the show, he was portrayed as a caricature and used for cheap laughs, which led to many, many Indian kids being subjected to that same caricature on a daily basis.

Apparently it is very hard to understand - as hard to understand that asking it not be perpetrated (or any number of other things) does not constitute “reverse racism.” The “ruling class” cannot seriously be oppressed - but it is incredibly hard to make these twits understand that asking them to “play fair” isn’t…

Presumably spoken like someone who didn’t spend middle school hearing kids say “Thank you come again” every time you walked by them.

I just love how Hank realized after all this time he, a white guy, voicing an Indian character was a bit stereotypical/racist. He’s apologized multiple times now for the past few years. Even made sure he never wanted to voice the character again.

> At this point its clear that Hari Kondabolu was just aiming for low hanging fruit to get fame.

Oh, fuck off with that shit. God, what a ridiculous sentence.

It’s ironic that you reference the doco “The Problem with Apu” in your post, since

Caricatures don’t have to be purposely or overtly negative to be harmful, especially when that caricature is one of the few representations of that ethnic group. If Bleeding Gums Murphy was the only representation of the Irish in popular culture there would be some Irish Americans who found it problematic. Actor Jay…

You’re so mad lol

I don’t think it’s a fetishization to acknowledge that Asian babies are superlatively cute. 

I don’t think it’s that easy. I think a lot of people were tiring of Whedon’s schtick way before we knew who he was. I don’t know anyone who bought into the “Joss Whedon, Super Feminist” thing for quite a while.

At the same time, I think it is ok to be irritated that medicine is still developed with men in mind. I had horrible side effects after my second shot, and when I looked at the side effect stats, women were way more over-represented than men. One of the consistencies in the studies was medical professionals…

Yeah, the writing was on the wall that he wasn’t growing as a Feminist and wasn’t growing as a writer. After Buffy there was still how Cordelia and Fred were treated, Inara in Firelfy, and basically the entire premise of Dollhouse. The Avengers was basically teed up for him in terms of it being an extended fan service…

Dunno about kinja, but before the Kai Cole story I’d been seeing people criticising Whedon’s past work for a fair while on the basis of it being fine for the 90s, but failing to keep pace with progress.

So, you think this show would have gotten a good review simply because Whedon was viewed as a feminist, but got a bad review because people now know he is not a feminist. Very A/V Club comment.