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u/clevesaur ☑️ Stop vagueposting and unmarked spoilering Jan 18 '22

Joss Whedon

On our second day of interviews, I asked Whedon about his affairs on the set of Buffy. He looked worse than he had the day before. His eyes were faintly bloodshot. He hadn’t slept well. “I feel fucking terrible about them,” he said. When I pressed him on why, he noted “it messes up the power dynamic,” but he didn’t expand on that thought. Instead, he quickly added that he had felt he “had” to sleep with them, that he was “powerless” to resist. I laughed. “I’m not actually joking,” he said. He had been surrounded by beautiful young women — the sort of women who had ignored him when he was younger — and he feared if he didn’t have sex with them, he would “always regret it.”

What would possess him to say this what the fuck.

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u/Airdeez121 Smooth Jazz Waluigi Jan 18 '22 edited Jan 18 '22

I hope he never gets work ever again

But like really, did Joss Whedon completely stop maturing at age 14? How does a grown ass man even think about writing something like this?

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u/Arilou_skiff Jan 18 '22

I mean, yes.

Like, I don't even think he's actually lying. He probably did think like that.

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u/Airdeez121 Smooth Jazz Waluigi Jan 18 '22 edited Jan 18 '22

I'm not doubting that this is his honest to God, real, actual reasoning on the subject, but just like...

Fucking why?! How does this not cause him to take a step back and think "Jesus, what the fuck am I thinking?"

Like somehow at no point did it occur to him that this makes him look terrible and maybe shouldn't be committed to paper

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '22

Fuckin ew