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This article was amazing. The interviewer is clearly sympathetic, but Whedon just keeps giving him more and more rope. He says he’s terrified of saying the wrong thing, and then says the wrong thing over and over. The article is an unintentional character study of a horrible asshole.
It’s worse than you think lol, def worth the read
"I’m not actually joking,” he said. He had been surrounded by beautiful young women — the sort of women who had ignored him when he was younger — and he feared if he didn’t have sex with them, he would “always regret it.”
As someone who was also ignored by attractive women when i was younger I can totally get why someone would feel this way. But a) don’t use a position of power to have sex with much younger women to make yourself feel better, b) don’t do it while you’re married and c) definitely don’t tell on yourself about it lol
Lavery and two other professors would go on to establish the Whedon Studies Association, an organization devoted to expanding the field of Buffy scholarship.
wtf.
Should I have been nicer?” He considered the question. Perhaps he could have been calmer, more direct. But would that not have compromised the work? Maybe the problem was he’d been too nice, he said. He’d wanted people to love him, which meant when he was direct, people thought he was harsh. In any case, he’d decided he was done worrying about all that. People had been using “every weaponizable word of the modern era to make it seem like I was an abusive monster,” he said. “I think I’m one of the nicer showrunners that’s ever been.”
wow.
On a scale from Harvey Weinstein to Roman Polanski… Wait, uh, on a scale from Bill Cosby to Woody Allen… Wait, on a scale from Jeffrey Jones to Fatty Arbuckle… Er…
No love here for Gal Gadot, but holy shit. Just saying, “English isn’t her first language,” is incredible deflection.
