Joss Wheedon

[kelliem]

Y'know, I'm not a fan of all of Joss Wheedon's ouvre-- I watched the first couple of seasons of Buffy and enjoyed it well enough, same for a season or so of Angel. I loved Firefly. But I have to say I have a lot more respect for the man himself today, after reading this than I did before.

I had somehow managed to be ignorant of the event he's writing about (the "honor killing" of Dua Khalil). I'm infuriated and saddened by it, though strangely and tragically unsurprised.

Comments

[hoosier-red.livejournal.com]

The killing itself was horrific and sickening -- what was MINDBOGGLING was how it was captured on cellphones by watchers as "entertainment."

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

Yes! It's just... there are no words. Just none.

[st-crispins.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link.

I just reviewed a play at McCarter Theatre in Princeton which recounted the real-life story of a woman who was locked up in a mental institution in the 1860s by her minister husband because she disagreed with him in public. It's a real horror story --- about a hundred years ago, in the US, men could do that. What was striking was that everyone who determined the woman's life ---judges, juries, administrators, etc. ---was male.

Thank God we're not there today but obviously other cultures are.

I agree with Joss: it's envy and resentment.

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

From what you've said, the play reminds me of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper."

The frightening thing is that I don't think it would take much to put us back in such a place, and I think that there are people in positions of power in this country who would actively welcome such a thing.

::shudder::

[ladyclio16.livejournal.com]

I just wanted to pat Joss on the head and welcome him to actually becoming a woman. He can join us now, he's hit full on feminine rage. I hit it years ago, I'm sadly numb too. Nothing a man does surprises me in the least anymore. I'm so full of hate and loathing for the entire gender. I came to the same conclusions he has long ago. *sigh* He can come sit next to me on the rage couch, he'll be one of the few men allowed.