So much of the “cancel culture” discourse centers around redemption. That’s part of the reason I want so much for him to redeem himself in some way, even though I have no idea what that looks like. I can analyze Whedon’s failings till the undead cows come home (not only in Cabin but in his Avengers work, that infamous Wonder Woman script, and more), but I’ll never stop loving his work. I didn’t question anything they were telling me. When I finally watched the movie, I saw them silently enacted-the funny, subversive voice of Joss and Drew speaking even when the characters weren’t. The dialogue, rhythmic like music, was nothing new to me, but the screen directions? They were magical. As a consolation prize, my mom bought me one of those glossy, special feature books that also included the complete script. Buffy Summers projected strength, vulnerability, and dark, twisted sexuality all at once, something I didn’t know women were allowed to do on television.Ĭabin in the Woods was a little too scary for me to see it in theaters at the time. “In fact,” I thought, “he might be like … an even better feminist than me.” I didn’t know before I watched Buffy that female desire could be portrayed as something so dark, aggressive, and complex-that girls could fight monsters without being laconic, scary grownups like Charlie’s Angels or Lara Croft. There was no doubt in my quip-obsessed 9th-grade mind that Joss was a feminist.
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