Joss Whedon is Pissed

I don't have a lot of time to post right now, but I think this is an eloquent and disturbing truth. For those of you who don't know, Joss Whedon was the writer of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but that's actually sort of irrelevant at this point. What he has done here is express something I've been wrestling with for a while: why do women hate themselves so much, and why do we let men hate us too? That's the first question. The second is why are we ok with seeing that hate translated into film/ media? This isn't about west versus east, or different appreciations of women, it's about why we are ok with watching it happen? Literally the watching or violence, be it on TV, in the news, YouTube, whatever. When did we cease to understand that these images are representations of human beings? Now, I'm not one of those people that thinks that violent video games cause people to be violent. I think it's the other way around: I think we as a culture are becoming more and more violent, and those video games etc. are just reflective of the changing tolerance threshold of our culture at large.

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