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Who were some of your childhood heroes that turned out to be horrible people? (lemmy.today)
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[–] 144 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I used to love Joss Whedon from everything he made. I grew up watching Buffy, and loved Firefly, then Marvel got him for Avengers and I was excited for him to be getting such a big break. He later Agents of Shield which I also loved. But then it came out that he was an abuser. His whole persona of championing strong women was merely a facade to hide this.

Learning that Michelle Trachtenberg (RIP) had a clause in her contract while working in Buffy (2000-3) at age 15 that she was not to ever be in the same room as Whedon alone opened my eyes to just how bad things are. Not just how bad he was, but how well it was known that he was an abuser and no one did anything about it. That's just how things were.

I have a hard time watching Buffy or any of his works anymore, just knowing now that he was behind these things.

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  • [–] 44 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah, it also gives me some closure with firefly being cancelled... like I the fox executive cancelled Firefly because he didn't like Whedon, now I know why he didn't like him. Or at least a probable reason.

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  • [–] 34 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    And it didn't give him a chance to be weird and creepy with Summer Glau.

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  • [–] 25 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

    Any more than he already had been.

    Lest we forget she was introduced to the show naked in a box.

    The man was big into the ‘born sexy yesterday’ trope.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago

    God, the entirely of Dollhouse was the most problematic thing I've ever seen in retrospect (regarding the born sexy yesterday trope) and I can't believe that past me didn't see how messed up everything about it was. That the dolls were turned into helpless blanks between jobs and constantly sexualized in that state was so messed up.

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