{"id":1221793,"date":"2022-01-18T11:07:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T16:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1221793"},"modified":"2022-01-18T11:07:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T16:07:42","slug":"joss-whedon-regrets-numerous-affairs-on-buffy-set-because-it-messes-up-the-power-dynamic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joss-whedon-regrets-numerous-affairs-on-buffy-set-because-it-messes-up-the-power-dynamic\/","title":{"rendered":"Joss Whedon Regrets Numerous Affairs On \u2018Buffy\u2019 Set Because \u2018It Messes Up The Power Dynamic\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoss-whedon-regrets-numerous-affairs-on-buffy-set-because-it-messes-up-the-power-dynamic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1221793&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Speaking in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/joss-whedon-allegations.html\">interview<\/a> with New York magazine, Hollywood director Joss Whedon, the creator of the hit television show \u201cBuffy the Vampire Slayer,\u201d admitted to having numerous affairs with actresses on the show, saying he felt terrible about them in retrospect because \u201cit messes up the power dynamic,\u201d and he had felt he \u201chad\u201d to sleep with the women because he was \u201cpowerless to resist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whedon also insisted that he had feared not having sex with the various women because if he didn\u2019t, he would \u201calways regret it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Whedon\u2019s ex-wife, Kai Cole, wrote at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/joss-whedon-feminist-hypocrite-infidelity-affairs-ex-wife-kai-cole-says\/\">The Wrap<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Fifteen years later, when he was done with our marriage and finally ready to tell the truth, he wrote me, \u201cWhen I was running \u2018Buffy,\u2019 I was surrounded by beautiful, needy, aggressive young women. It felt like I had a disease, like something from a Greek myth.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>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. He deceived me for 15 years, so he could have everything he wanted. I believed, everyone believed, that he was one of the good guys, committed to fighting for women\u2019s rights, committed to our marriage, and to the women he worked with. But I now see how he used his relationship with me as a shield, both during and after our marriage, so no one would question his relationships with other women or scrutinize his writing as anything other than feminist.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>New York magazine quoted a \u201chigh-level member of the&nbsp;<em>Buffy<\/em>&nbsp;production team\u201d recalling an incident in which she was working in her office when Whedon and one of the actresses came in and rolled around the floor behind her while they were making out. \u201cThey would bang into my chair. \u2026 How can you concentrate? It was gross,\u201d she said, adding that incidents like that happened more than once, prompting her to quit. She concluded, \u201cThese actions proved he had no respect for me and my work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Actress Michelle Trachtenberg, who was a teenager when she appeared on the show, noted that a rule was implemented to keep Whedon from being alone in a room with her. \u201cDuring the seventh season, when Trachtenberg was 16, Whedon called her into his office for a closed-door meeting. The person does not know what happened, but recalled Trachtenberg was \u2018shaken; afterward,\u201d New York Magazine reported.<\/p>\n<p>Whedon surmised in the interview that the possible reason for his troubles communicating in his work derived from him being \u201ctoo nice.\u201d&nbsp;He claimed people had been using \u201cevery weaponizable word of the modern era to make it seem like I was an abusive monster,\u201d adding, \u201cI think I\u2019m one of the nicer showrunners that\u2019s ever been.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking in an interview with New York Magazine, Hollywood director Joss Whedon, the creator of the hit television show \u201cBuffy the Vampire Slayer,\u201d admitted to having numerous affairs with actresses on the show, saying he felt terrible about them in retrospect because \u201cit messes up the power dynamic,\u201d and he had felt he \u201chad\u201d to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1221793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}