Multi-hyphenated because she’s also a musician.

Here’s what is coming to AV Club: No One

Two points worth making:

People tend to be attracted to people who help them be a version of themselves they like. Whedon made people seem smart, talented, and sexy through his writing. Not at all confusing why people got interested in him. As many have pointed out, though, it’s kind of pathetic that what HE wanted to be was “a guy who…

I’m aware of the misogyny that gets directed toward young women for dating older men—and also basically anything else they do or don’t do in public, because there’s always a big segment of the population that loves to tear down any young women who they feel gives them a target.

Some people hear a list of personality issues from their therapist and think, “I need to work on these things.”

Thank you. The same goes for his works too:

While this idea is terrible, remember that there is no guarantee this idea would have made it into an episode intact. Judging an artist by the ideas they had instead of the one they executed on is not a good idea. Everyone has a ton of bad ideas. What important is the ideas that are made reality.

The work I always think of related to that is the movie Easy Rider. It was a huge success when it came out and represented a new style of filmmaking that hadn’t been used in popular cinema much prior to it. I saw it 30ish years after it came out, and I find it painfully boring and uninteresting. The only benefit I…

I was a big fan of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly, but I think it would be difficult to rewatch those shows a the moment. Whedon being a creep and an asshole has, at least temporarily, ruined them for me.

Thank you so much for posting this. I feel like the “his work wasn’t really that great” responses fall into two categories:

It’s about representation. Women live in a constant low-key state of mistrust/fear of men. “Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them.” So, seeing a woman who had the power to stand up to physical abuse was empowering. It may be super common now to see physically kickass women, but…

It’s really great that you’re doing this when Eliza Dushku has a long history of being harassed and assaulted by predatory men

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.

You’re not wrong, but at the same time, with respect to the “waif who can beat the shit out of anyone,” that WAS the whole point of Buffy. You’re looking through a 2022 lens at something that was very subversive in 1992. In the early 90s, no waif was beating the shit out of anyone (in Western entertainment, at least).…

He definitely didn’t “fail upwards” - he’s an asshole and an abusive prick, we can all acknowledge that (now), and he definitely got his foot (or feet, or whole big head) in the door due to his family history and connections. But in addition to his early TV work, he was a highly valued script doctor, then wrote most…

I’m a big proponent of this - to go to the extreme, I think it’s valuable to view pictures of Hitler smiling at kids, or with a dog, to make sure we remember these are all just human beings. I hate when people say Cosby wasn’t funny or The Cosby Show wasn’t revolutionary, or say that Louis CK was never funny, or that…

Joss wasn’t supervising Buffy during season 6. He was too busy ruining Angel. Marti Noxon was the main show runner for season 6.

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…