By Chris Snellgrove
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Few Hollywood creatives had the whole rise and the fall that Joss Whedon made: the Buffy The Vampire Slayer The Creator was once considered the ultimate feminist ally, but his ex-wife and his Costars later accused him of insensitive and misogynistic behavior towards women. Most of the fans were shocked at the time because they could not imagine that the man who created their favorite female characters could treat women so behind the scenes. The allegations against Joss Whedon should not have been so surprising, however, taking into account the problem he made of the Xander, his insert character.
Joss Whedon & Xander
On special features for BuffyFirst season, Joss Whedon admitted something unsurprisingly about the most sarcastic scooby of the show: “Xander, I always identified as the figure I said to myself, because he had this inability to … talk to the girl and come through the great moment. With the usual self-depreciation of Whedon, he noted that Xander is his self-integration is the reason why the character “does a lot of idiots of himself”. Ironically, the showrunner pointed out that the actor of Xander Nicholas Brendon is “much prettier and more muscular than anyone acts as it should be but it is television” but encouraged the skeptics to “recover” .
Obviously, Joss Whedon especially wanted Xander to embody the clumsy but funny aspects of his secondary self, which is why the character obtains, according to the words of Nicholas Brendon, “all good lines”. Unfortunately, there is an obscure side to this self-likely characterization that many fans have not timed before the climb Buffy Rewatch Podcasts. When you closely follow the episode program at the episode with podcasts like Tamp the vampire killerIt is easy to see that Xander is often a frightening shock whose misogyny reflects allegations against its creator.
Although Xander’s problematic moments are too many to list here, some of its worst offenses include the launch of a love spell that goes badly as a whole city. He also deceives 5 cordelia and later tried to trade both Anya and Buffy to sleep with Spike (my guy, do you even have seen James Marsters to its peak?). Xander also abandons Anya at the altar and, before that, refuses to tell Buffy that Willow will try to restore Angel’s soul, forcing the killer to kill the love of his life.
How, then, are the allegations against Joss Whedon reflected by Xander’s actions? According to his ex-wife, Kai Cole, the Buffy The creator is a “hypocrite preaching feminist ideals” which deceived it with several anonymous actors of the show while defying as a champion of women.
This made that the actor of Cordelia Charisma Carpenter abandons his own allegations of bombs according to which Whedon had a “story of being with casualness” and that he called him “fat” when she became pregnant during AngelAsking if she was going to keep the baby. The most alarming dawn actor Michelle Trachtenberg said Whedon was not allowed to be alone with her on the set.
All these allegations paint a very different vision of the Buffy Showrunner as a misogynist, cruel and even potentially dangerous. The most explosive allegations have never been confirmed, but the damage has been caused, and this veteran showrunner and MCU The director has lost its feminist street credibility. The Fandom was then devastated by the accusations but should not really have been … After all, Joss Whedon easily admits that he modeled his most misogynistic character after himself.
Interesting, the next Buffy Restarting has the possibility of bringing Nicholas Brendon back and, finally, to buy the character of Xander once and for all. However, Whedon – or at least, Whedon’s reputation – no longer resembles his most famous vampiric bad guys: death and beyond all hope of redemption.
Source: Vulture
