This is deeply disturbing
Feb. 16th, 2021 05:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyContent warning: Joss Whedon
I don't know what, exactly, could've prompted the "Joss isn't allowed alone in the same room as young adolescent Michelle Trachtenberg" rule, but it can't have been anything good.
(Some people are, of course, putting out arguments that this statement is vaguely worded because nothing happened or that this rule isn't a special Joss-only rule but generally applied when there are teens and kids on set. Those are fancy ways of calling her a liar. They can't all be lying, guys.)
Let's be clear, the problem here isn't Joss. I mean, it is Joss Whedon, he is very obviously a problem and by now he's also a money-losing problem, but the problem isn't (just) him, and it's certainly not the people he hurt who had trouble coming forward. The problem is the people who knew about it, and had real power to take real actions to stop it and then decided... not to. Because Joss Whedon was making them money. They didn't care. Those people probably still don't care, but they're at least motivated by the bottom line.
I don't know what, exactly, could've prompted the "Joss isn't allowed alone in the same room as young adolescent Michelle Trachtenberg" rule, but it can't have been anything good.
(Some people are, of course, putting out arguments that this statement is vaguely worded because nothing happened or that this rule isn't a special Joss-only rule but generally applied when there are teens and kids on set. Those are fancy ways of calling her a liar. They can't all be lying, guys.)
Let's be clear, the problem here isn't Joss. I mean, it is Joss Whedon, he is very obviously a problem and by now he's also a money-losing problem, but the problem isn't (just) him, and it's certainly not the people he hurt who had trouble coming forward. The problem is the people who knew about it, and had real power to take real actions to stop it and then decided... not to. Because Joss Whedon was making them money. They didn't care. Those people probably still don't care, but they're at least motivated by the bottom line.
