Summary
'WHAT is wrong with women?" That is the question recently posed in an internet essay by Joss Whedon, the Hollywood scriptwriter responsible for, among other things, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And if you're not familiar with the Whedon oeuvre, you might just leap from those bare facts to the wrong conclusion about the question and the questioner.
In fact, far from denigrating women in his films and television programmes, Whedon is widely celebrated for his female characters and the stories he creates for them. His question was part of a reflection on what he sees as a near-universal misogyny. "How else to explain the fact that cultures who would die to eradicate each other have always agreed on one issue, that half of us are inferior...?"See the full content of this document
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Culturally Speaking, Sex Equality's Hard to Find
The starting point for Whedon was violence against women, from "honour killings" in Pakistan to Hollywood's recent fad for thoroughly nasty horror films with predominantly female victims. He may well be right to diagnose a fundamental violence in Americ...
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