Remember that my views about the show are not the most negative ones out there.
I feel awful for Joss Whedon's wife. From what I've read about him and the interviews I've watched, I'm fairly certain that he rapes his wife and abuses her in various other ways. I honestly can't think of anything worse than living with a man like Joss who thinks of women like the way he portrays in his tv shows. How awful. The comment about the money was meant to be about how I personally could see no benefit from being with a man like Joss OTHER than money. Joss uses and abuses her. Probably rapes her and thinks of women as whores etc, etc. Obviously, Ms Whedon has her own reasons for staying. Fear, patriarchal concepts of love, etc. But I would argue that she gives everything and gets nothing. Money is the only concrete thing that she could possibly gain. But as I said money is worth nothing compared with self-integrity, self-esteem, love (sister/lesbian/gynaffectionate love) etc. So she still loses out. Poor woman.
I think I will go with coalescent (from whom I nicked this and just react with a ...
[And now I think I should make it clear that while I think Firefly was awful, the writer above is completely barking and the assertations she makes appear to be produced ex ano]
- The next time I bitch about Firefly
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james_nicoll- March 25th, 2008
2008-03-26 03:26 am (UTC)
I'm trying to remember when that Canadian lady lawyer discovered that despite the fact she was a lawyer pulling down lawyery wages (until she was laid off or whatever) as far as the government was concerned it was her seasonal fisherman husband who was the wage-earner and she wasn't entitled to pogy. Because if you have to screw someone over for being a woman, it always works out best if that woman is a lawyer with a lot of time on her hands.
Late 1970s but maybe early 1980s. Annoyingly recent, though.