Let's put it this way...
If you had left the following out of the article...
On the set of “Buffy,” Joss decided to have his first secret affair.could you have just said...he wrote me, “When I was running ‘Buffy,’ I was surrounded by beautiful, needy, aggressive young women. It felt like I had a disease, like something from a Greek myth. Suddenly I am a powerful producer and the world is laid out at my feet and I can’t touch it.” But he did touch it. He said he understood, “I would have to lie — or conceal some part of the truth — for the rest of my life,” but he did it anyway, hoping that first affair, “would be ENOUGH, that THEN we could move on and outlast it.”
Joss admitted that for the next decade and a half, he hid multiple affairs and a number of inappropriate emotional ones that he had with his actresses, co-workers, fans and friends, while he stayed married to me.
If you could have, why would you feel the need to include...
when you could have left it out?needy, aggressive young women
He made a super hero show on television where the entire point was taking the monster movie cliche of the girl in the dark alley being preyed on by the monster and subverting it by empowering the women to be the super hero. The second most powerful character on the show was a witch who had near omnipotent power. The main male leads were the only one's without any power aside from the vampires who were redeemed in a way by falling in love with her. It was absolutely a female empowerment show. The show ended with a group of women around the world gaining super hero powers to take control of their own lives. It was pretty overt.
It was arguably the most important feminist show of all time if we are being honest and was years ahead of it's time.
I think his work has been up his own ass for a long time now, clinging to the legacy he left behind with Buffy, his one true great work. That's all I can judge though as these are products I can consume and have an opinion on. I know nothing about the man's private life and don't really want/need to, thus have no interest in drawing any judgments or conclusions about him as a human being based on the leaks of a scorned ex-wife.
"They can be a great people Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you. My only son." - Jor-El
his words not hers. It doesn't matter how Cole phrased it. She'd still be getting the same reaction if not from you, then from someone else because every time a woman speaks out against an influential man in any industry the assumption will be that she has some hidden agenda other than getting the truth out
Last edited by Agent Z; 08-21-2017 at 10:15 PM.