themostfeminist: lesbians-on-mars: captainsway: [TW: rape, drugs, misogyny] thelefthandedwife: allonsy10: And this was actually the first story that Joss pitched to me when he asked me to come work on the show. He said, ‘These are the kind of stories we’re gonna tell.’ I cringed so hard at this. What the fuck joss? jesus fuck, I thought that syringe was a suicide thing in case of reavers. This is so much worse. I thought this was sick and horrible. Even the actors are visibly disturbed (and not in a wow what a brilliant dark idea way)  Not indicative of Joss Whedon being anti-feminist though. Which is what a lot of you are suggesting/saying.  He’s using rape as a plot point to show how Mal feels about Inara (and to make him treat her like a lady, because rape makes him realise she’s worth more than when she has consensual sex?). Inara has no agency in this situation; she’s still raped, she’s still brutalised, she can’t escape. And the twist at the end isn’t about her, it’s about Mal. This is a seriously misogynist thing to do. It isn’t the only sexist thing Whedon has done but it’s really awful that one of his favourite concepts for a show was to show a woman (specifically a sex worker) gang-raped, then have the key point of the episode be a man’s reaction to it. 
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themostfeminist: lesbians-on-mars: captainsway: [TW: rape, drugs, misogyny] thelefthandedwife: allonsy10: And this was actually the first story that Joss pitched to me when he asked me to come work on the show. He said, ‘These are the kind of stories we’re gonna tell.’ I cringed so hard at this. What the fuck joss? jesus fuck, I thought that syringe was a suicide thing in case of reavers. This is so much worse. I thought this was sick and horrible. Even the actors are visibly disturbed (and not in a wow what a brilliant dark idea way)  Not indicative of Joss Whedon being anti-feminist though. Which is what a lot of you are suggesting/saying.  He’s using rape as a plot point to show how Mal feels about Inara (and to make him treat her like a lady, because rape makes him realise she’s worth more than when she has consensual sex?). Inara has no agency in this situation; she’s still raped, she’s still brutalised, she can’t escape. And the twist at the end isn’t about her, it’s about Mal. This is a seriously misogynist thing to do. It isn’t the only sexist thing Whedon has done but it’s really awful that one of his favourite concepts for a show was to show a woman (specifically a sex worker) gang-raped, then have the key point of the episode be a man’s reaction to it. 
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themostfeminist: lesbians-on-mars: captainsway: [TW: rape, drugs, misogyny] thelefthandedwife: allonsy10: And this was actually the first story that Joss pitched to me when he asked me to come work on the show. He said, ‘These are the kind of stories we’re gonna tell.’ I cringed so hard at this. What the fuck joss? jesus fuck, I thought that syringe was a suicide thing in case of reavers. This is so much worse. I thought this was sick and horrible. Even the actors are visibly disturbed (and not in a wow what a brilliant dark idea way)  Not indicative of Joss Whedon being anti-feminist though. Which is what a lot of you are suggesting/saying.  He’s using rape as a plot point to show how Mal feels about Inara (and to make him treat her like a lady, because rape makes him realise she’s worth more than when she has consensual sex?). Inara has no agency in this situation; she’s still raped, she’s still brutalised, she can’t escape. And the twist at the end isn’t about her, it’s about Mal. This is a seriously misogynist thing to do. It isn’t the only sexist thing Whedon has done but it’s really awful that one of his favourite concepts for a show was to show a woman (specifically a sex worker) gang-raped, then have the key point of the episode be a man’s reaction to it. 
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themostfeminist: lesbians-on-mars: captainsway: [TW: rape, drugs, misogyny] thelefthandedwife: allonsy10: And this was actually the first story that Joss pitched to me when he asked me to come work on the show. He said, ‘These are the kind of stories we’re gonna tell.’ I cringed so hard at this. What the fuck joss? jesus fuck, I thought that syringe was a suicide thing in case of reavers. This is so much worse. I thought this was sick and horrible. Even the actors are visibly disturbed (and not in a wow what a brilliant dark idea way)  Not indicative of Joss Whedon being anti-feminist though. Which is what a lot of you are suggesting/saying.  He’s using rape as a plot point to show how Mal feels about Inara (and to make him treat her like a lady, because rape makes him realise she’s worth more than when she has consensual sex?). Inara has no agency in this situation; she’s still raped, she’s still brutalised, she can’t escape. And the twist at the end isn’t about her, it’s about Mal. This is a seriously misogynist thing to do. It isn’t the only sexist thing Whedon has done but it’s really awful that one of his favourite concepts for a show was to show a woman (specifically a sex worker) gang-raped, then have the key point of the episode be a man’s reaction to it. 
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themostfeminist:

lesbians-on-mars:

captainsway:

[TW: rape, drugs, misogyny]

thelefthandedwife:

allonsy10:

And this was actually the first story that Joss pitched to me when he asked me to come work on the show. He said, ‘These are the kind of stories we’re gonna tell.’

I cringed so hard at this. What the fuck joss?

jesus fuck, I thought that syringe was a suicide thing in case of reavers. This is so much worse.

I thought this was sick and horrible. Even the actors are visibly disturbed (and not in a wow what a brilliant dark idea way) 

Not indicative of Joss Whedon being anti-feminist though. Which is what a lot of you are suggesting/saying. 

He’s using rape as a plot point to show how Mal feels about Inara (and to make him treat her like a lady, because rape makes him realise she’s worth more than when she has consensual sex?). Inara has no agency in this situation; she’s still raped, she’s still brutalised, she can’t escape. And the twist at the end isn’t about her, it’s about Mal.

This is a seriously misogynist thing to do. It isn’t the only sexist thing Whedon has done but it’s really awful that one of his favourite concepts for a show was to show a woman (specifically a sex worker) gang-raped, then have the key point of the episode be a man’s reaction to it. 

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[TW: violence] And then there’s Charlie Sheen. Sheen’s sordid history includes shooting Kelly Preston with a .22 calibre pistol, throwing chairs at his then wife Denise Richards, being sued by a UCLA student for allegedly hitting her in the head after she refused to have sex with him, allegedly strangling at least two of his former girlfriends and just generally being a god-awful d-ckmonger. Yet none of that mattered to Chuck Lorre and the other people making squillions of dollars from the long running Two and a Half Men, a televisual fart that didn’t just succeed in offending the tastes of thinking people everywhere but also legitimised Sheen as some kind of raffish japester. In the end, Sheen was fired not because he’s a disgusting human being with a gross history of violence against women but because he had a drug problem and was publicly rude to his boss.
Clementine Ford again, on the topic of why we seem to forget that Chris Brown is not the only famous person who has ever been abusive to women (via exportswede)

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