Idk if this makes you feel any better, but MCU has gotten better and better ever since Feige kicked Whedon out of MCU.
No one will ever credit Whedon for Wandavision.
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Charisma Carpenter Gives Lengthy Details on How She was Abused by Joss Whedon
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Idk if this makes you feel any better, but MCU has gotten better and better ever since Feige kicked Whedon out of MCU.
No one will ever credit Whedon for Wandavision.
The past is the past though. Joss Whedon did create Buffy and he did direct the first 2 Avengers movies. Those things happened. All we can change is how we approach his body of work going forward.
So WB currently employs at least 5 (?) abusers on the TV/Film side of things: Joss Whedon, Geoff Johns, Walter Hamada, Ezra Miller & Amber Heard.
And this doesn't get into the fact that they currently do business with JK Rowling and other situations that exist like Jared Leto.
What the fuck are they thinking.
And this doesn't get into the fact that they currently do business with JK Rowling and other situations that exist like Jared Leto.
What the fuck are they thinking.
After Dollhouse it was pretty obvious the dude was very problematic. That show made me feel dirty and I bailed out midway through the first season. Everything we have found out since then seems obvious looking at a lot of his work.
Christ on a stick that's some despicable behaviour. What a mean, disgusting asshole.
The 'fat'comments are bang out if order.
Him questioning if she is going to keep the baby, in the way he did, is just evil.
He knew damn well what he was inferring, and he wasnt even with her! All for a fucking show.
The 'fat'comments are bang out if order.
Him questioning if she is going to keep the baby, in the way he did, is just evil.
He knew damn well what he was inferring, and he wasnt even with her! All for a fucking show.
It's been long known that Joss basically punished (there's really no other word for it) Charisma for getting pregnant, and fired her off the show. And when she agreed to come back, her character was immediately killed off with finality as a final "fuck you."
This is just spelled out with clarity from her own words. The guy sucks.
This is just spelled out with clarity from her own words. The guy sucks.
Wow, so he really is a POS. He needs to face consequences for this like being blacklisted forever. No longer will credit him for Buffy and Angel as I'm sure other creative minds were the REAL magic behind it. Screw him.
Worst part is they're still also siding with them, both Depp and Ray got fired
Liking art that was made by a shitty person is not a reflection on your character and pretending that you can rewrite reality is silly and immature. Relax.
Charisma is my favorite actress from the entire Buffy franchise, and while it was pretty obvious shit was being glossed over as to her exit from Angel, having it laid out this bare is stark, and reading her statement made me tear up. I'm glad Whedon is finally getting some repercussions for an entire career of horrible behavior.
this is especially accurate because joss is a transmisogynist piece of shit too
Lots of things to unpack there.
At the top of my mind is how someone who creates something like Buffy lacks the introspection to not do certain things.
It's not like people haven't displayed behavior than what Joss hasn't done but it still is disappointing when people can't make connections from their experiences to guide them in interacting with other people better.
Oh well. I hope these investigations make the owners in the film industry hire people who are more professional as managers and who basically can mediate things between different employees instead of allowing situations like this where a person who needs to be leading certain aspects of a project shouldn't be allowed to manage people directly. Heck this is something that should be considered across all industries. Most people aren't talented at being management and the way business schools train people to be managers hasn't caught up yet with the fall out from the MeToo movement.
At the top of my mind is how someone who creates something like Buffy lacks the introspection to not do certain things.
It's not like people haven't displayed behavior than what Joss hasn't done but it still is disappointing when people can't make connections from their experiences to guide them in interacting with other people better.
Oh well. I hope these investigations make the owners in the film industry hire people who are more professional as managers and who basically can mediate things between different employees instead of allowing situations like this where a person who needs to be leading certain aspects of a project shouldn't be allowed to manage people directly. Heck this is something that should be considered across all industries. Most people aren't talented at being management and the way business schools train people to be managers hasn't caught up yet with the fall out from the MeToo movement.
Wow. This is so much to take in. Been expecting this day for so many years but never thought I'd see it so soon.
it's so especially upsetting because Charisma has been upfront about this situation but very much in a respectful way this entire time and afaik, that pig Whedon has never once tried to apologize to her or anything.
<3 you Charisma
it's so especially upsetting because Charisma has been upfront about this situation but very much in a respectful way this entire time and afaik, that pig Whedon has never once tried to apologize to her or anything.
<3 you Charisma
Man this one has always bothered me because as far as I've seen no one else has come forward and corroborated it as far as there being affairs. I have no doubt that the relationship between Joss and his wife was definitely unstable, and as bad as she claims. But now after reading this and now that this has come out for real real I gotta wonder what will follow.
Also it's differently when it's a superhero movie compared to a director like Woody Allen whose films are semi-autobiographical or the main character is based on his mannerism.
Outside the actors I almost never really think of the non-screen staff when watching a film.
What the heck. I knew he was more than a little difficult to work with but if he was trying to pressure a pregnant woman to have an abortion that is way beyond anything I had expected. That's totally fucked up.
This will be a final nail in his career.
If Disney wants to continue working with the Directors Guild, they can't change anything.
The actress who played Tara, Amber Benson has supported her account:
So obviously Joss Whedon is a piece of shit, and the abortion item/ask is absolutely disgusting.
I was reading the thread title (before reading the twitter posts) and was going to do a "at what point is the "Whiplash" director / teacher technique not OK?", but this isn't the guy to have that debate around. There's a difference between a hostile work environment to try and drive excellence and what this guy was doing. There's outright gender discrimination here too.
I was reading the thread title (before reading the twitter posts) and was going to do a "at what point is the "Whiplash" director / teacher technique not OK?", but this isn't the guy to have that debate around. There's a difference between a hostile work environment to try and drive excellence and what this guy was doing. There's outright gender discrimination here too.
Cordelia was my favourite character on Angel, and I was part of the fandom back then. I remember Joss having the gall to say her leaving was because she wanted to spend time with her family, and people close to her/family members coming forward online to say actually no, not the case, not her choice. While I knew something like this had gone down, seeing it in her own words, just damn. Screw Joss.
Right?
Like the sheer audacity to ask someone whether or not they are going to keep their baby. If this is a subject they want to discuss with you, they will ask you.
What is Whedon's thing with pregnant women anyway? Between this disgusting thing he said to Charisma Carpenter, the Buffy gets an abortion comic and the absolutely ridiculous Black Widow plotline in AoU about how she's a monster for not being able to get children, he seems to have some really odd issue with pregnancies.
Get them all out and never working again. It's the least the victims derserve.