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In the deluge of revelations about the scumminess of Hollywood types, I think his rather pedestrian foibles have been drowned out in the minds of most... I had
by megaman22 9y ago
In the deluge of revelations about the scumminess of Hollywood types, I think his rather pedestrian foibles have been drowned out in the minds of most... I had to go google "Joss Whedon scumbag" to even remember what he was in trouble for.
- tomcam 9y agoIf your politics differed from his you would remember, because I’m a huge Joss fan who’s had to sift through a ton of insults to my beliefs in order to keep up with his work. I respect my opponents’ beliefs but I am quite happy to see him suffer the blowback on his rank hypocrisy.
- IntronExon 9y agoWhat a nasty load of projection and assumptions! I don’t think that it takes politics to differentiate between rape, sexual assault, patterns of abuse and harassment... and cheating on a spouse. Dozens of people coming out and describing the behavior of someone like Weinstein or Spacey is on a different planet than an ex accusing someone of serial cheating.
- paulcole 9y agoWhen you have to make the "he's not as bad as ..." argument about someone, they're still pretty bad. Sure, being a scumbag is a continuum. But it's pretty easy to argue that someone who espoused feminist beliefs (and profited off the image that gave him) while cheating on his wife is squarely on it.
- IntronExon 9y agoWhen you have to make the "he's not as bad as ..." argument about someone, they're still pretty bad. I agree, but I didn’t make that argument. I’m saying that there is a fundamental difference between scummy and criminal, and they are not part of the same continuum.