23. "RE: Is he womanizing? He was just cheating, lol." In response to In response to 21
>She frames it as infidelity = not being a feminist which is >bullshit.
that's why i ask. it certainly undercuts his image and reputation as this male feminist modern day icon, but at the very least the creative works themselves could be argued as feminist. the man himself may not be, depending on how much credence you place in his ex-wife's account and that nebulous definition of feminism we now have.
>The question is that did he use his power to fuck those >actress/staff/writers...
(lest we forget, "you're goddamn right i fuck fans")
>that's where we can easily slide into >is Whedon a piece of shit. He puts it as if they were hitting >on him...*shrug* which might be so. It also might be so that >since he's the big boss man all his hollas worked because of >the 'implication' (c) Always Sunny. > >But by her focusing on that by him cheating = he's a woman >hater...this is a gotta hear both sides situation, lol. Its a >bad accusation.
i agree that it didn't quite add up, which is to be expected in a public spat between former spouses. i also think it's clear he didn't get into writing movies and tv shows just to sleep around. still, i believe her that the path he chose that gave him such access to young and impressionable women enabled him to be a serial louse. does a man who cheats on his wife over and over with an apparent variety of women within the sphere of his work lose his feminist card, could he never have had one in that case, or is it all truly irrelevant so long as the work stands on its own merits? for me it's hard to separate the idealized identity of a feminist from the reality of a man who deceived his wife for over a decade and uses his fame and popularity to sleep with everyone from fans to people he directs and cuts checks.
i think this is going to follow him around for awhile, maybe forever. post inspired by whedonesque shutting down over this. personally i've never been invested enough in him to care that much, but i've always liked his stuff.