Because that show is notorious for exploiting it’s contestants? But yeah, let’s blame a 16 year old, not her grifter parents and and giant TV show.

This sounds like it would be interesting to watch and if it could be done without massive death toll on both sides it might work, but judging just from two famous partitions of the 20th century - Ireland and Northern Ireland, and India/Pakistan/Bangladesh, I’m afraid the death toll would be horrendous. Once people who…

Many of the same people who riot over their football team and think their lucky jersey means something.

I mean it’s definitely still a crime, coerced consent simply is not consent.

Remember who you’re replying to. This troll once advocated for driving over protesters and then reversing back over them. Far as I’m concerned, it (I refuse to dignify trolls with personal pronouns such as “he”) should have been investigated by the FBI for that post.

Yeah, I’m sure Whedon is suffering the same career-ending reckoning that Woody Allen did in the early 90s. 

See: Hitchcock.

Smart money is on this.

The rightwing tack is entirely plausible.

Honestly I think he knows he’s done in Hollywood but Im sure the royalties for the Avengers alone are enough to retire a hundred times over on.  He will sadly be okay 

It is the old “can you separate the art from the artist” question. If I can acknowledge that part of what upsets me so much is the hypocrisy, does that mean the art is still salvageable, since its so antithetical to the artist? Or do I sanitize the work by telling myself so many other artists and creators - including…

Louis career is definitely not over, I’m in the comedy scene and I’m afraid it is far from over. It was definitely accepted because these dudes made their bosses copious amounts of money and accolades. These men were predators for most of their careers, unscathed, many of them were brazen. These things were just a…

I agree with you wholeheartedly. Hollywood picks who they deep worthy of punishment. Woody will never get his reckoning despite being an absolutely terrible and reprehensible human. People seem to think that “it was so long ago.” There should be no statute of limitations on crimes against children, ESPECIALLY…

Yes. This. Whedon’s work over the last couple three decades has been some of my favorite work. I enjoyed it a lot. It articulates genre based stuff I enjoy and did so in ways I think was wonderful. But it undeniably comes from a horrible person which means at some level, it’s an articulation of some pretty ugly stuff…

Joss must have been a real monster. There is no excuse for this behavior and it saddens me that some of the characters that I grew up with and love, were fighting monsters both on screen and on set.

Pretty sure CK broke some laws, exposing yourself without consent isn’t legal.

I LOOOOVED Buffy, really enjoyed his Marvel stuff, and in general have been a fan. At this point I am no longer a fan. It isn’t surprising that a director is an asshole and everything that is being said about him tracks with stories of “difficult” directors that I have heard before (I have no connection to the…

My guess is that every Hollywood journalist is now bombarding everyone who even had a tangential relationship with the show with interview requests. My guess too is that things are about to get really worse for Joss. My final guess is that those of us who deeply loved the show (like me) will have yet another thing…

Yea, this statement confused me. This is the reckoning. Right now. We’re watching it unfold in real time. I don’t see Whedon fans lining up to defend him, if anything we (yes, I was one) feel incredibly betrayed and grossed out by all this. The only question now is how much worse can it get, given Trachtenberg’s…

She said “He’s not allowed in a room alone with Michelle again” which sounds like it was after a specific event, not based on an existing rule.