Joss Whedon - My new hero
Of course, I love Love LOVE Joss Whedon. C’mon, Buffy? Firefly? Serenity? Who cannot love him? His female characters, wow. Zoe Warren almost makes me wish I was a lesbian. Almost.
But what’s got me all googoo today? Joss blogged about Dua Khalil and made my heart hurt. Don’t know her? Oh, c’mon, you saw her on the news, didn’t you? Being stoned to death by a group of men, some of them her family? Her brutal death captured on cell phones and shared with the world. Of course you know her. If you don’t, you been living in a cave.
Joss speaks about her, and about the problem within society as a whole that deems women to be irrelevant, disposable.
“How did more than half the people in the world come out incorrectly? I have spent a good part of my life trying to do that math, and I’m no closer to a viable equation. And I have yet to find a culture that doesn’t buy into it. Women’s inferiority – in fact, their malevolence — is as ingrained in American popular culture as it is anywhere they’re sporting burkhas. I find it in movies, I hear it in the jokes of colleagues, I see it plastered on billboards, and not just the ones for horror movies. Women are weak. Women are manipulative. Women are somehow morally unfinished. (Objectification: another tangential rant avoided.) And the logical extension of this line of thinking is that women are, at the very least, expendable.”