Exactly. I think she’s working really hard to avoid the “scorned woman” stereotype, and is just trying to own her truth. She could have gone total scortched earth if she felt super vindictive - instead, this read to me more as a “I don’t want to keep lying for him anymore because he doesn’t deserve it” which I’m…
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I thought calling him “Thoros Amir” was supposed to be a joke extending the metaphor . . .
I don’t think the issue is so much the cheating, but the apparent emotional abuse and manipulation. Like, if she disclosed instead that he physically abused her, I seriously doubt anyone would be having an issue with her saying, yeah he might not be such a great feminist after all. Sure, all people are imperfect, but…
This tweet sums him up perfectly:
He looks like the incompetent intern who tries to yell at admin staff because he can’t figure out how a copier works.
I was waiting for the backflips people would do for this fucker.
Yeah. If it was just cheating? Fine, I’m not gonna care too much, not my life. But he abused his power and position as producer. He completely messed with his wife’s head over the whole thing. That’s the problem here and a lot of people don’t seem to have realised.
Truly unbelievable how many people are missing the point! He used his supposed feminism to gaslight and emotionally manipulate her - THAT is what disqualifies him as a feminist, not the cheating as such (though that one is also shitty, naturally).
Never trust a man who calls women ‘females’.
No. He tanked Carpenter because she dared to get pregnant while on Angel and he didn’t like it. Google it. There’s plenty out there about how much of an asshole he was to her.
Sorry, did you read his Wonder Woman script? It was trash, actual sexist garbage, like much of his work since Buffy.
This comment section proves an emphatic yes to willful blindness. Jesus, the mental backflips of some people...
Excuse me? What exact makes Cole a “bad guy”? Because she was honest and called out a complete and utter hypocrisy? Because she’s right that her ex is a diuche who blamed women for his indfidelities?
No, I think she is saying she has PTSD because she spent 20 years with a guy who turned out to have lied to her so often, and so successfully, that she has to question if they ever had an authentic moment. Every time she remembers him having to work late, while she believed him completely at the time, she has to ask…
Yes, but Joss Whedon blamed his cheating not on himself but on the “beautiful, needy, aggressive young women” whom he was in a position of power over in his cheating and not himself. Then, he gaslit his wife for fifteen years and lied to her. Then, asked her to carry the burden with him. He was not powerless or a…
Nobody who watched Dollhouse with a critical eye could possibly walk away from that thinking Whedon was the Feminist Hero of our Age. Let’s start with massive doses of what is effectively rape and go from there.
Is there seriously no middle ground between “God On Earth” and “sleeps nude with underage nieces”? Because man, I’m not that great but I DEFINITELY haven’t done anything close to that in life. And genuinely didn’t think that made me at all special...
Why don’t you believe her? Do you think her story is implausible?
Remember how he fired Charisma Carpenter for getting pregnant?