Joss Whedon Is a ‘Hypocrite Preaching Feminist Ideals,’ Ex-Wife Kai Cole Says (Guest Blog)

The Wrap ^ | August 20, 2017 | Kai Cole

[SMGFan]

“He used his relationship with me as a shield … so no one would question his relationships with other women or scrutinize his writing as anything other than feminist,” she writes

[SMGFan]

Read it if you will.

[Skywise]

Wait... he was MARRIED?!

[Texas Eagle]

Am I supposed to know who Joss Wheldon is?

[KosmicKitty]

Glad my first reaction was shared. LOL :-)

[Lysandru]

Wasn't Bill Clinton supposed to be a feminist?

When the Trump "locker-room talk" tape surfaced, I was gob-smacked at how many Clintonistas got outraged.

[SMGFan]

Yes, Some people will know him from his work on TV & film .

[Texas Eagle]

Somehow, I feel vaguely smug that I’m not one of them.

[Architect of Avalon]

Joss Whedon is an abortion advocate.

[mewzilla]

Whedon’s non-denial denial at the end is interesting.

[Skywise]

I thought he was gay?!

[Okeydoker]

Yeah, who the h is this clown and why would anyone be interested in his ex wifes writing about what a dirtbag he is?

[schurmann]

“Am I supposed to know who Joss Whedon is?”

He may not matter much to forum members on a personal level, but knowing a few details might come in useful later, for self-defense.

He’s a writer/director/producer, of films (a couple of the Marvel Avengers films) and TV (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel). Activists laud him as someone who has transformed the female superhero genre. One of the younger powers in the entertainment business, he wields enormous clout but got there without any perceptible character development - which makes him a lot like the newer billionaires who have made it big in digital hardware and software, and the entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley.

[ponygirl]

”…Observe the ugly mess which most men make of their sex lives–and observe the mess of contradictions which they hold as their moral philosophy. One proceeds from the other. Love is our response to our highest values–and can be nothing else. Let a man corrupt his values and his view of existence, let him profess that love is not self-enjoyment but self-denial, that virtue consists, not of pride, but of pity or pain or weakness or sacrifice, that the noblest love is born, not of admiration, but of charity, not in response to values, but in response to flaws–and he will have cut himself in two. His body will not obey him, it will not respond, it will make him impotent toward the woman he professes to love and draw him to the lowest type of whore he can find. His body will always follow the ultimate logic of his deepest convictions; if he believes that flaws are values, he has damned existence as evil and only the evil will attract him. He has damned himself and he will feel that depravity is all he is worthy of enjoying. He has equated virtue with pain and he will feel that vice is the only realm of pleasure. Then he will scream that his body has vicious desires of its own which his mind cannot conquer, that sex is sin, that true love is a pure emotion of the spirit. And then he will wonder why love brings him nothing but boredom, and sex–nothing but shame.”

—Francisco d'Anconia, Atlas Shrugged

[BradyLS]

Responses are funny. One said promoting feminism is the MO of loser-dorks who can’t get laid otherwise.

[Reily]

Yeah I thought he was a “in-your-face” gay guy!

[arthurus]

That is not incompatible.

[Calvin Locke]

... why would anyone be interested in his ex wifes writing about what a dirtbag he is?

Perhaps people want a first-hand consonance of their own observational opinions of Whedon?

[KosmicKitty]

I thought he was gay?!

Who didn't ? LOL!

[Pravious]

I was driving across the country from Massachusetts on a whim, and met him when I was passing through Los Angeles.
—
On the way to where? The middle of the Pacific Ocean?

[socalgop]

lol. and then when women decide to have an affair they justify it with that same feminism - eat pray love, etc. etc.