“‘Hypocrite preaching feminist ideals’: Director Joss Whedon’s ex-wife accuses him of cheating” (Washington Post) is a good companion to the sexless marriage post today.
Many applauded him for being a champion of women, a feminist in an industry accused of misogyny and sexism.
That image was challenged by his ex-wife Kai Cole, who wrote an essay in a Hollywood industry blog called the Wrap Sunday accusing him of serially cheating during their 16-year marriage and calling him a “hypocrite preaching feminist ideals.”
“I want to let women know that he is not who he pretends to be,” Cole wrote. “I want the people who worship him to know he is human, and the organizations giving him awards for his feminist work, to think twice in the future about honoring a man who does not practice what he preaches.”
Whedon first gained fame in 1996 when he created the fantasy series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” … The show and Whedon were lauded for their feminist message.
Women’s rights group Equality Now gave him an award “for his courageous support of women’s right’s” in 2006.
Plainly these two California family court litigants are no longer best friends. However, how can a cheating heterosexual husband be a “feminist” issue? If both the spouse and the extramarital sexual partners identified as “women,” couldn’t it just as easily be characterized as a conflict among women? (see Wikipedia on female intrasexual competition) What is the specific feminist principle that Mr. Whedon might have violated?
Disclaimer: I have not seen Buffer the Vampire Slayer and had never heard of this guy until this article was emailed to me.
I have not seen any episodes of Buffy, but Firefly (one of his early works) is great. It was a very short run, but if you’re into libertarian leaning space westerns, it’s as good as it gets.
I watched Buffy first run. It was good dumb fun. I tried to watch it again last year and discovered quickly that the show didn’t hold up well.
> I have not seen Buffer the Vampire Slayer
Not sure if serious, but the Vampire Slayer’s name is Buffy. I too have never seen it, neither the movie nor the TV show
Oops! Freudian programmer slip. But maybe Buffer Overrun the Security Slayer would be a good title for a corporate training film.
You may not have seen “Buffer” the character, but the actress who plays her is archetypal:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Michelle_Gellar
Both of her parents were Jewish, though Gellar’s family also had a Christmas tree during her childhood.[10][11] In 1984, when she was seven, her parents divorced and she was raised by her mother on the city’s Upper East Side.[12] While growing up with her mother, she lost contact with her father, from whom she remained estranged until his death in 2001;[13][14][15] she once described him as “non-existent”,[16] and in the early 2000s, she stated: “My father, you can just say, is not in the picture. I’m not being deliberately evasive about him, it’s just that there’s so little to say.”
Maybe her blog entry was written by her in a drunken stupor. As Jeffrey Lebowski would say “Jackie Treehorn treats objects like woman, man!”