Mother Jones - Comments for "On Joss Whedon, Male Feminist"

Thank you.

Deborah, thanks for contributing to the destruction of the Imus program. The phony "aw shucks" routine is positively awful. Your solutions to racism which you apparently see everywhere are infantile and the just plain ponderous babbling is mind numbingly boring and uninspired.

Zack, look deep within yourself. You're a douchebag. You know this to be true.

Just because one is on the left doesn't mean that she can't enjoy the simple pleasures in life. Don't be so god damned smug.

Pop culture is a waste of time. Yes, even "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Look deep within yourself; you know this to be true.

I was very impressed by the "interconnectedness" in Joss Whedon's response. First the fact that he realized the input of other people's influences in terms of his own mindset which allowed him to create those strong female characters: the influence of his mother, the influence of his father, the influence of his stepfather, the influence of his wife, the female friends in his entourage. Second, equality being seen as the idea of equilibrium, the feet-on-the-ground ability "to stand on the earth" rather than some lofty ideal to aspire to ...or give lipservice to. Impressive.

*swoon*

LOVE Joss Whedon!

Yep, that is a great follow up to the 'A Feminist Hears a Who' editorial. There really should be a way to protect the intent and integrity of a person's work so that when the message gets distorted or changed, those responsible have to answer for it in some way. Can anyone imagine far into the future, when Buffy becomes part of the public domain and some Hollywood jerk does a remake, slightly tweaking the story so that Buffy is just a little dependent on her male friends, so that being pretty or having a nice figure is something she seems ate up about? To be frank, I've never seen the movie, assuming it would just be air, but now I'm going to take a look.