It’s pandering because the story here is Laura Donnelly’s casting. A performer who’s worked her ass of, who’s become something of a genre favorite, and who comes from a small place that’s probably pretty proud of this news (I’ve lived in Belfast, trust me, they’re proud - also, they just lost one of their…

So you are saying that those women would be too afraid to speak against Joss Whedon? In this day and age. If the untouchable Weinstein was taken down, Whedon wouldn’t stand a chance if he used power to sleep with his actresses unwillingly. So he cheated, so what? 

It’s also out of a large push that cis/white/male creators shouldn’t write from the perspective of anybody not cis/white/male. Sure, there should be more art from different perspectives, and there’s also too many times the cis/white/male creators flub the non cis/white/male voices, but if that group’s work was purely…

What really galls me about this is how nothing about Kai Cole’s account of his supposed hypocrisy actually undermined his feminism, yet many on this website took it as if it did. If we’re going to condemn every person who’s cheated on their partner, then let’s go ahead and sink the whole goddamn film industry, and…

Joss Whedon cheated on his wife. That’s not good. But all of that cheating he did was consensual and with women who were of age.

If we’re going to throw out the baby with the bath water on every content creator who ever cheated on their spouses, we’re going to have to lose probably half of the popular canon.

So you…

At this point, an AV Club writer wouldn’t be able to say whether he or she preferred to breathe oxygen or airborne clouds of razor-sharp iron particulates without toeing the party line. If particulates get more clicks, then it looks like someone will have to write a quick newswire called “We Love Our New Bloody Lungs…

Meh. AV Club’s total 180 on Joss Whedon was pretty weak. After Whedon got caught cheating on his wife, AVC immediately started acting like they never liked him and how his female characters were actually all super duper sexist as if we weren’t celebrating Buffy Week 4 days earlier. If there was any specific moment…