The next time I bitch about Firefly

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]

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dornbeast

2008-03-26 05:29 am (UTC)

I'll go with "reasonable one," personally. I don't define Muslims by the actions of Al Qaeda (however the heck that's spelled), I don't define pro-life activists by the people who shoot doctors and firebomb clinics, and I don't define feminists by people like

_allecto_.

(As a cherry on top of her quadruple banana split of strange viewpoints, she's bothered by "Xander Harris, a pro-porn, sex-obsessed teenage male in Buffy." Maybe I'm biased by experience, but that sounds like every teenage male out there.)