From Chris Snellgrove
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Only a few Hollywood creative had the increase and case that Joss Whedon did: Die Buffy the Vampire Slayer The Creator was once considered the ultimate feminist ally, but his ex-wife and Costars later accused him of the insensitive and misogynistic behavior towards women. Most fans were shocked at that time because they could not imagine that the man who created her most popular strong female characters could treat women so badly behind the scenes. However, the accusations against Joss Whedon should not have been so surprising if you consider how problematic he made Xander, his own self-set character.
Joss Whedon & Xander
On the special functions for Buffy‘The first season did Joss Whedon not surprisingly talk about the most sarcastic sarcastic scooby of the show: “Xander, I always identified as the figure that I was most because he had this inability to speak and come and come and come to get through. “With Whedon’s usual self -stirdik, he found that Xander is his self -admission, why the character” makes an idiot of himself “. The showrunner pointed out that the Xander actor Nicholas Brendon is “much nicer and muscular than anyone else who acts, but this is television”, but encouraged skeptics to “get over it”.
Obviously, Joss Whedon mostly wanted that Xander embodies the unpleasant but funny aspects of his high school, which is why the character in Nicholas Brendon’s words “all the good lines”. Unfortunately, this natural characterization has a dark side too Buffy Podcasts Rewatch. If you follow the show from episode to episode together with podcasts how exactly how Vampire hunter bufferIt is easy to see that Xander is often a creepy idiot, whose misogyny reflects the accusations against his creator.
While the problematic Xander moments are too numerous to appear here, some of his worst crimes belong that the casting of a love spell goes wrong who magically reconsidered an entire city. He also cheats shamelessly on Cordelia and later tries to switch Anya and Buffy with spike to sleep (my guy, they even have, they even have seen James Marsters in his heyday?). Xander also lets Anya on the altar and refuses to restore the Buffy that Willow will try to restore Angel’s soul, and forces the hunter to kill the love of her life.
How is the allegations against Joss Whedon reflected on the actions of Xander? After his ex-wife Kai Cole, who Buffy Creator is a “hypocrite, the feminist ideal sermon” who cheated on the show with several unnamed actors and appeared as advocates of women.
This prompted the Cordelia actor Charisma Carpenter to fall her own bombing allegations that Whedon had a “story of casual cruel” and that he described her “fat” when she became during pregnancy during the time angelAnd asked her if she would keep the baby. Most alarming, Dawn Actor Michelle Trachtenberg claimed that Whedon was not allowed to be alone with her on the set.
All of these accusations paint a completely different view of the Buffy Showrunner as someone like a women, cruel, cruel and even potentially dangerous. The most explosive accusations have never been confirmed, but the damage was done, and this experienced showrunner and McU The director lost his feminist street loans. The fandom was subsequently destroyed by the allegations, but really shouldn’t have been … after all, Joss Whedon willingly admits that he modeled his most misogynistic character.
Interestingly, the upcoming Buffy The reboot has the chance to bring Nicholas Brendon back and finally redeem the character of Xander once and for all. Whedon – or at least Whedon’s call – is a bit like his most famous vampire villains: dead and beyond any hope for redemption.
Source: vulture
