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massive respect for and solidarity with @AllCharisma
Buffy meant the world to me as a teenager (something my recent rewatch only emphasised 
)â I canât imagine how hard it would be to inhabit that world so completely, for it to be so integral to your working life & how youâre perceived, to be so aware of what it meant to people
)â I canât imagine how hard it would be to inhabit that world so completely, for it to be so integral to your working life & how youâre perceived, to be so aware of what it meant to people
& for all that to be inseparable from a highly abusive working environment.
Iâm suspicious of the way this gets reported as âsupposed feminist maker of feminist show Joss Whedon revealed to be a bad personââ I donât know if a show like Buffy (or any tv show?) can be described straightforwardly as being âfeministâ without flattening the vocabulary
tv like anything else is formed by intersecting power structures, creatively, financially, sociallyâthe real work of making the show is done by those without the Big Power, & its subversive & meaningful parts exist both despite & because of its dramatisation of such structures
I guess I mean itâs not âironicâ that Joss Whedon dramatised patriarchal & misogynist abuses of power whilst simultaneously committing themâ and it demeans the courage of Carpenter coming forward about her experiences of his abuse to suggest it is only important because of that
