His crap writing always wreaked of pandering and fakeness. I can not get enough of this story. His demise is just delicious.
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I have to kind of agree with that.
from the article:
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"Cole had a different take on Buffy. "On the set of 'Buffy,' Joss decided to have his first secret affair," she wrote.
She wrote that for the next 15 years, as he went on to direct major films such as "The Avengers" and "Avengers: Age of Ultron," she claimed he continued carrying out affairs while she suffered in anguish.
"I went from being a strong, confident woman, to a confused, frightened mess," she wrote. "I was eventually diagnosed with Complex PTSD and for the last five years, I have worked hard to make sense of everything that happened and find my balance again."
"Despite understanding, on some level, that what he was doing was wrong, he never conceded the hypocrisy of being out in the world preaching feminist ideals, while at the same time, taking away my right to make choices for my life and my body based on the truth," she wrote. "He deceived me for 15 years, so he could have everything he wanted."
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How did he take away her choice? Was she locked in the basement? Was she kept drugged and fearful to leave? Did he threaten to kill her children? Did she have a gun to her head? She lived with more privilege than 99% of people in the world, so I am missing how he took away her choices about her life and her body.
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We didn't need to take his wife's word for it. Just look up the script he pitched for a Wonder Woman movie about eight years ago. It's one of the most misogynistic things I've ever read.
Joss Whedon used to develop his female characters by having a lot of terrible things happen to them, but it was okay, because they always came out stronger.
At some point around Dollhouse, the female characters stopped getting stronger, and became completely defined by their appearance, and the male characters in their lives. Just compare Black Widow in Avengers 1 to Avengers 2.
Either the man became far more of a pig, or he was always a pig (as his wife would suggest), and he's just having a more difficult time hiding it.