Joss Whedon Allegations: The Undoing of the "Buffy" Creator


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Getting kind of tired of all the "he's only human" talk in my social media circle. "This is what happens when you put people on a pedestal, Joss Whedon is just a human being," they will say. I'm quick to remind them that the problem isn't Joss Whedon being human. The problem is that Joss Whedon is an abusive, cruel human.
 

Getting kind of tired of all the "he's only human" talk in my social media circle. "This is what happens when you put people on a pedestal, Joss Whedon is just a human being," they will say. I'm quick to remind them that the problem isn't Joss Whedon being human. The problem is that Joss Whedon is an abusive, cruel human.
Right. There might be some truth to the idea that we shouldn't be so quick to put people up on pedestals, but that's separate from the fact that Whedon treats other people like garbage and doesn't seem to understand what's wrong with that. Too many folks in my own social circle are ready to jump on the former in order to dismiss the latter for reasons I don't quite get.

(I also get annoyed by friends who are like "well I never liked his stuff anyway". That also isn't really the point.)
 

Getting kind of tired of all the "he's only human" talk in my social media circle. "This is what happens when you put people on a pedestal, Joss Whedon is just a human being," they will say. I'm quick to remind them that the problem isn't Joss Whedon being human. The problem is that Joss Whedon is an abusive, cruel human.
Seriously. This isn't a case of behavior that was ever broadly considered normal and fun that people have had to unlearn the normalization of, the guy is an abusive bully. The normal opinion of such dudes has been very negative since before Whedon was born.

"He's only human" is an important point in the case of childhood bullies, as there are ways to help a kid stop being that person and not grow up into an even worse person.

This is a grown man who couldn't be trusted to be in a room alone with a teenager who he had power over.
 




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