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Joss Whedon is a racist misogynist that rapes his wife, now with 10% more Shakespeare

KageraKagera Imitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered User regular
edited March 2008 in Debate and/or Discourse
Ah the internet, where the most interesting blogs are a google search away.

http://users.livejournal.com/_allecto_/34718.html

Basically this particular blogger takes issue with Joss Whedon's portrayal of women in Firefly, and seems confounded by the idea people see him as a feminist, and has declared Joss Whedon is the worst man in the universe.

Here are some choice quotes:
The next scene we meet Kaylee, the ship’s mechanic. <- Lookee, lookee, feminist empowerment. In this scene Mal and Jayne are stowing away the cargo they just stole. Kaylee is chatting to them, happily. Jayne asks Mal to get Kaylee to stop being so cheerful. Mal replies, “Sometimes you just wanna duct tape her mouth and dump her in the hold for a month.” Yes, that is an exact quote, “Sometimes you just wanna DUCT TAPE HER MOUTH and DUMP HER IN THE HOLD FOR A MONTH.” Kaylee responds by grinning and giving Mal a kiss on the cheek and saying, “I love my Captain.”

What the fuck is this feminist man trying to say about women here? A black woman calling a white man ‘sir’. A white male captain who abuses and silences his female crew, with no consequences. The women are HAPPY to be abused. They enjoy it. What does this say about women, Joss? What does this say about you? Do you tell your wife to shut up? Do you threaten to duct tape her mouth? Lock her in the bedroom? Is this funny to you, Joss? Because it sure as fuck ain’t funny to me.
So, Joss Whedon refers to rapist/fuckers who buy women as sex, as ‘eager, inexperienced but pleasingly shaped’ who ‘make love’ to women in prostitution. Obviously, ‘love’ to men like Joss Whedon, requires female powerlessness, force and coercion. Women in prostitution enjoy the experience of being bought for sex. They feel ‘motherly’ towards the men who have just treated them as property and bought them as sex.
Her husband, Wash, talking about how he likes to watch her bathe. Let me just say now that I have never personally known of a healthy relationship between a white man and a woman of colour. I have known a black woman whose white husband would strangle and bash her while her young children watched. My white grandfather liked black women because they were ‘exotic’, and he did not, could not treat women, especially women of colour, like human beings. I grew up watching my great aunts, my aunty and my mother all treated like shit by their white husbands, the men they loved. So you will forgive me for believing that the character, Wash, is a rapist and an abuser, particularly considering that he treats Zoe like an object and possession.

I can assure you that this is just the beginning of my rant on Firefly. There is so much more disturbing stuff later in the series. In particular, an episode called Our Mrs. Reynolds, another episode written by Joss, which completely demonises women as well as pornifying male violence against us.

And some responses to comments made by others:
Andrea Dworkin and John Stoltenberg. That would be one that I would call a 'happy, healthy, positive, mutually respectful, mutually loving, heterosexual relationship'. Umm... I'm still thinking. I don't think I could name any others.
I feel awful for Joss Whedon's wife. From what I've read about him and the interviews I've watched, I'm fairly certain that he rapes his wife and abuses her in various other ways. I honestly can't think of anything worse than living with a man like Joss who thinks of women like the way he portrays in his tv shows. How awful. The comment about the money was meant to be about how I personally could see no benefit from being with a man like Joss OTHER than money. Joss uses and abuses her. Probably rapes her and thinks of women as whores etc, etc. Obviously, Ms Whedon has her own reasons for staying. Fear, patriarchal concepts of love, etc. But I would argue that she gives everything and gets nothing. Money is the only concrete thing that she could possibly gain. But as I said money is worth nothing compared with self-integrity, self-esteem, love (sister/lesbian/gynaffectionate love) etc. So she still loses out. Poor woman.

I haven't seen such hilarious non-satirical statements since the last State of the Union speech personally, but maybe I'm wrong and Joss Whedon really does rape his wife and kill kittens or whatever, what do you think?

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  • TachTach Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    There isn't enough O_o in the universe.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    I'm thinking that I am cursing you for making me read those damned snippets. Seriously, its stuff like this that makes me weep for humanity.

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  • durandal4532durandal4532 Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    I think Whedon comes off as a genuinely well intentioned person, But his work isn't quite as feminist as he thinks it is. Plus he has that stupid womb-envy thing he wrote that's just a silly "opposite = correct" reaction to penis envy.

    I don't think that means he's non feminist, though. Or that you know... that he rapes his wife. Christ.

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    edited March 2008
    Oh man, that first quote. Yes, jokingly saying you want to duct-tape Kaylee's mouth shut is the same as abusing women.

    And clearly a black woman can't say "sir" to a white guy who was her superior officer in the military.

    I mean, women in the military. Pfft.

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Apparently couples aren't supposed to see each other naked.

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  • AdrienAdrien Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Kagera wrote: »
    Her husband, Wash, talking about how he likes to watch her bathe. Let me just say now that I have never personally known of a healthy relationship between a white man and a woman of colour. I have known a black woman whose white husband would strangle and bash her while her young children watched. My white grandfather liked black women because they were ‘exotic’, and he did not, could not treat women, especially women of colour, like human beings. I grew up watching my great aunts, my aunty and my mother all treated like shit by their white husbands, the men they loved. So you will forgive me for believing that the character, Wash, is a rapist and an abuser, particularly considering that he treats Zoe like an object and possession.

    This is the one that makes me think it's a joke.

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  • GrombarGrombar Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    I believe in the radical feminist definition of rape. That is that men who pressure women into sex are rapists. That women who are pressured are not freely consenting and are therefore being raped. There have been a few discussions recently in the rad fem blogosphere debating whether all male initiated sex is rape, given that women are politically, socially and economically subordinate to men. So, in my understanding of Joss Whedon as a rapist is hinges on my definition of rape. I would argue that most 'sex' between men and women, in the contemporary 'sex-positive', pornographic, male-supremacist culture, is rape.

    That's...unhealthy.

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  • AdrienAdrien Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Oh, wow. You shouldn't have taken this out of context.
    > > Let me just say now that I have never personally known of a healthy relationship between a white man and a woman of colour.
    >
    > Like you've personally known of a healthy relationship between a man and a woman?

    heh, true.

    > Seriously? I mean, really, *seriously*? You've *never* known of *anyone* who's in a happy, healthy, positive, mutually respectful, mutually loving, heterosexual relationship?
    >
    > I'm not yanking your chain, I really want to know.

    Andrea Dworkin and John Stoltenberg. That would be one that I would call a 'happy, healthy, positive, mutually respectful, mutually loving, heterosexual relationship'. Umm... I'm still thinking. I don't think I could name any others.

    If this is the real deal, it goes so far beyond Whedon I don't think he's even relevant.

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  • KageraKagera Imitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Adrien wrote: »
    Kagera wrote: »
    Her husband, Wash, talking about how he likes to watch her bathe. Let me just say now that I have never personally known of a healthy relationship between a white man and a woman of colour. I have known a black woman whose white husband would strangle and bash her while her young children watched. My white grandfather liked black women because they were ‘exotic’, and he did not, could not treat women, especially women of colour, like human beings. I grew up watching my great aunts, my aunty and my mother all treated like shit by their white husbands, the men they loved. So you will forgive me for believing that the character, Wash, is a rapist and an abuser, particularly considering that he treats Zoe like an object and possession.

    This is the one that makes me think it's a joke.

    Actually I delved farther into this user's history and no, it's not a joke.

    She really does believe this and other 'radfem' ideas.

    Also you can't be write stuff that is pro-porn or pro-capitalism or she'll delete your comments.

    Here's another site of the blogger's with an update and such. http://allecto.wordpress.com/

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  • ElJeffeElJeffe Moderator, ClubPA mod
    edited March 2008
    Stupid people exist on the internet.

    More on this breaking story as it occurs.

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  • MikeMcSomethingMikeMcSomething Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Grombar wrote: »
    I believe in the radical feminist definition of rape. That is that men who pressure women into sex are rapists. That women who are pressured are not freely consenting and are therefore being raped. There have been a few discussions recently in the rad fem blogosphere debating whether all male initiated sex is rape, given that women are politically, socially and economically subordinate to men. So, in my understanding of Joss Whedon as a rapist is hinges on my definition of rape. I would argue that most 'sex' between men and women, in the contemporary 'sex-positive', pornographic, male-supremacist culture, is rape.

    That's...unhealthy.

    Pinked for FeminAwesome!

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  • mcdermottmcdermott Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Ah, the old "all sex is rape" line. Always a good indicator that awesomeness is about to ensue.

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  • KageraKagera Imitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    ElJeffe wrote: »
    Stupid people exist on the internet.

    More on this breaking story as it occurs.

    I propose this is a little beyond standard stupid, and pretty funny as well. I am easily amused however.

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  • Look Out it's Sabs!Look Out it's Sabs! Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    It's like this person didn't even watch Firefly. Yes Mal just loves to abuse women.

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  • PodlyPodly you unzipped me! it's all coming back! i don't like it!Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Yet another milestone in the vociferous hatred of radical feminism in geekdom.

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    edited March 2008
    It's like this person didn't even watch Firefly. Yes Mal just loves to abuse women.

    He only keeps River on board to abuse mentally handicapped women.
    Boy would Mal get abused by River.

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  • Pants ManPants Man Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    i don't like whedon, but not because he rapes his wife or anything. although if he does i will probably like him even less

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  • AdrienAdrien Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Kagera wrote: »
    ElJeffe wrote: »
    Stupid people exist on the internet.

    More on this breaking story as it occurs.

    I propose this is a little beyond standard stupid, and pretty funny as well. I am easily amused however.

    I think it's a welcome change. "God hates fags" does start to get old.

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  • KageraKagera Imitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    It's like this person didn't even watch Firefly. Yes Mal just loves to abuse women.

    Oh yeah, I forgot to post that quote
    Hmm... Considering I watched the whole series twice, read through every single script, read through Serenity about five times, counted the lines that men spoke and women spoke, then worked for about three weeks trying to write this I think it is interesting that you call me lazy.

    In case you wanted to know, men talked 458 times in the first episode compared to 175 for the women.

    So...yeah.

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  • Look Out it's Sabs!Look Out it's Sabs! Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Kagera wrote: »
    It's like this person didn't even watch Firefly. Yes Mal just loves to abuse women.

    Oh yeah, I forgot to post that quote
    Hmm... Considering I watched the whole series twice, read through every single script, read through Serenity about five times, counted the lines that men spoke and women spoke, then worked for about three weeks trying to write this I think it is interesting that you call me lazy.

    In case you wanted to know, men talked 458 times in the first episode compared to 175 for the women.

    So...yeah.

    Well there is only 4 females on the crew, one of which was barely in the first episode let alone speaking.

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  • SpoonySpoony Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    If that lj sidepicture is any indication of the author's identity, she has a long history of this type of posting. It's not actually a joke. If the blogger is who I think it is, it's Cheryl Lindsey Seelhoff.

    By the way, she's running for president.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Echo wrote: »
    It's like this person didn't even watch Firefly. Yes Mal just loves to abuse women.

    He only keeps River on board to abuse mentally handicapped women.
    Boy would Mal get abused by River.

    That's nothing to how much Wash would get abused by Zoe if he tried to get his husbandly-abusin' on.

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  • ZimmydoomZimmydoom Accept no substitutes Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    I think I just got mindfucked against my will.

    Somebody please come watch me bathe until I feel better.

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  • Look Out it's Sabs!Look Out it's Sabs! Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    I'm trying to read this, but this person has no idea what she is talking about, it's as if she didn't even watch the show, just maybe read the script and is going off from what she heard about the show? It's so bad.


    *stabs eyes*

    Edit: Okay wow just go to the part where she is talking about how Mal likes to assert himself as the alpha male and likes to punch people randomly (Simon). D:

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  • PodlyPodly you unzipped me! it's all coming back! i don't like it!Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Sabs, perhaps the fact that there are only four women in itself is something to consider?

    I've only seen the show a few times, so I'm not really at liberty to comment very much. But damn guys, you have different opinions than someone, we get it.

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  • Pants ManPants Man Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    ain't no kind of persecution complex like a batshit crazy persecution complex.


    everytime i see this kind of thing pop up on the internets, be it from an insane anti-men uberfeminist or a conspiracy theorist or a blame the white/black/hispanic man for all of society's ills person, i wonder to myself what in the fuck happened in this person's life to make them think that way. no one just all of a sudden wakes up and decides that dworkin's relationship with her little self hating toadie of an assistant is the only healthy relationship between a man and a woman they've ever heard of.

    either no one ever told this person to stop being a giant fuckhead when they were growing up, or something happened to plant that seed. maybe someone should ask her where all of this started for her.

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  • KageraKagera Imitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Spoony wrote: »
    If that lj sidepicture is any indication of the author's identity, she has a long history of this type of posting. It's not actually a joke. If the blogger is who I think it is, it's Cheryl Lindsey Seelhoff.

    By the way, she's running for president.

    No this woman (I'm sorry womyn) is from Australia and only 26 years old.

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  • PodlyPodly you unzipped me! it's all coming back! i don't like it!Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Pants Man wrote: »
    maybe someone should ask her where all of this started for her.

    Seriously, man. Some dude must have dumped her or something and she was a little bitch and couldn't deal with it.

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  • riven5riven5 Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Honestly I can't come up with anything funny to say in response to this. She's funny enough as is. I am eager to continue reading through some affiliated journals. I'm sure they will be spectacular.

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  • LeitnerLeitner Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Podly wrote: »
    Sabs, perhaps the fact that there are only four women in itself is something to consider?

    When there's only eight main characters? Not really.

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  • Ghandi 2Ghandi 2 Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Kagera wrote: »
    Spoony wrote: »
    If that lj sidepicture is any indication of the author's identity, she has a long history of this type of posting. It's not actually a joke. If the blogger is who I think it is, it's Cheryl Lindsey Seelhoff.

    By the way, she's running for president.
    No this woman (I'm sorry womyn) is from Australia and only 26 years old.
    I was really hoping that it was her because that would just be another layer of hilarity. Even still, this is funny, thanks.

    Oh, and it's wymyn.

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  • PodlyPodly you unzipped me! it's all coming back! i don't like it!Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Leitner wrote: »
    Podly wrote: »
    Sabs, perhaps the fact that there are only four women in itself is something to consider?

    When there's only eight main characters? Not really.

    Then why are the lines so dominated by men?

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  • mcdermottmcdermott Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Podly wrote: »
    Sabs, perhaps the fact that there are only four women in itself is something to consider?

    I've only seen the show a few times, so I'm not really at liberty to comment very much. But damn guys, you have different opinions than someone, we get it.

    I know. I'm of the opinion that I'm not a rapist. Go figure.

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  • ZimmydoomZimmydoom Accept no substitutes Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    mcdermott wrote: »
    Podly wrote: »
    Sabs, perhaps the fact that there are only four women in itself is something to consider?

    I've only seen the show a few times, so I'm not really at liberty to comment very much. But damn guys, you have different opinions than someone, we get it.

    I know. I'm of the opinion that I'm not a rapist. Go figure.

    Everyone is entitled to their own opinion as to whether or not you're a rapist.

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  • riven5riven5 Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    mcdermott wrote: »
    Podly wrote: »
    Sabs, perhaps the fact that there are only four women in itself is something to consider?

    I've only seen the show a few times, so I'm not really at liberty to comment very much. But damn guys, you have different opinions than someone, we get it.

    I know. I'm of the opinion that I'm not a rapist. Go figure.

    That's what all the rapists say.

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  • Look Out it's Sabs!Look Out it's Sabs! Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Podly wrote: »
    I've only seen the show a few times, so I'm not really at liberty to comment very much. But damn guys, you have different opinions than someone, we get it.

    Its just really bad how she takes all sort of scenes out of context. For example when she goes off on how the guys like to punch and cause violence randomly using the example of how Mal punches Simon, she totally forgot to add that the reason he is so mad at Simon is because Kaylee (who is a girl dur dur dur) got shot due to a circumstance that Simon caused.

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  • Pants ManPants Man Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Podly wrote: »
    Pants Man wrote: »
    maybe someone should ask her where all of this started for her.

    Seriously, man. Some dude must have dumped her or something and she was a little bitch and couldn't deal with it.


    oh for fuck's sake. she openly states in her blog that she hates men. ALL men. i'm sorry if i don't think that's a rational opinion formed by careful thought and consideration.

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  • ZimmydoomZimmydoom Accept no substitutes Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Pants Man wrote: »
    Podly wrote: »
    Pants Man wrote: »
    maybe someone should ask her where all of this started for her.

    Seriously, man. Some dude must have dumped her or something and she was a little bitch and couldn't deal with it.


    oh for fuck's sake. she openly states in her blog that she hates men. ALL men. i'm sorry if i don't think that's a rational opinion formed by careful thought and consideration.

    I wonder how she feels about super fancy gay dudes.

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  • Look Out it's Sabs!Look Out it's Sabs! Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Podly wrote: »
    Leitner wrote: »
    Podly wrote: »
    Sabs, perhaps the fact that there are only four women in itself is something to consider?

    When there's only eight main characters? Not really.

    Then why are the lines so dominated by men?

    She only counted the lines from the first episode, I would like to see how it would be like if she counted the whole show or other episodes. The first episode River is introduced late, and can't even form coherent sentences yet, and all the side characters except for one were male.

    If you did it for the Heart of Gold episode for you would most likely have female lines outnumbering the male lines.

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  • ElkiElki get busy Moderator, ClubPA mod
    edited March 2008
    Kagera wrote: »
    I haven't seen such hilarious non-satirical statements since the last State of the Union speech personally, but maybe I'm wrong and Joss Whedon really does rape his wife and kill kittens or whatever, what do you think?

    I think dumb people on the internet are a dime a dozen.

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