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DS: Joss Whedon criticizes comic book movie industry for intractible sexism "there's always an excuse." Antibody Jan 28, 11:47

"most of the best characters in Marvel are owned by Fox" {nm} Antibody Jan 28, 11:48

Guess he is referring to the 100s of X-Men characters, rather than the FF characters. {nm} BSmurf Jan 28, 11:59

Quote doesn't seem to indicate this but I wonder from context if he is referring to most of the best female characters {nm} Rioter Jan 28, 12:19

..ever the feminist.. {nm} Facto Jan 28, 11:56

and? {nm} charlie Jan 28, 12:08

I'm saying he stays in character. {nm} Facto Jan 28, 12:20

what "character"? he's written strong roles for women throughout his career {nm} charlie Jan 28, 12:32

That underlines my point - don't be obtuse Facto Jan 28, 12:37

Wow, you actually think oen can't a feminist "in real life", that it's just playing a "character". {nm} Antibody Jan 28, 13:13

I got the feeling that that was the misunderstanding here. I meant that he is true to his own personality, style and character. Facto Jan 28, 14:01

Also, it's kind of philosophically challenging to draw the line between personality and "being in character", either way. Except if someone Facto Jan 28, 14:48

However, "strong female roles" (or "leads"), as a term, is an abomination. Facto Jan 28, 12:39

(egotists) {nm} Facto Jan 28, 12:39

female roles have traditionally been written as weak or passive, so yes it matters to be gender-specific {nm} charlie Jan 28, 12:43

One can argue it that way, no doubt, but the Danish director felt otherwise. When you say traditionally, I believe you are thinking about or Facto Jan 28, 14:06

It's funny that you mention a Danish director and then mis-spelled egotists as "egotits"...because I immediately thought "Legotits". :) Paul2k Jan 28, 13:04

"Settle down, Beavis".. ;) {nm} Facto Jan 28, 14:02

There are plenty of reasons to dislike the term "strong female" (character/role/lead figure etc) - and most of the criticism against the Facto Jan 28, 16:40

Or one can read "We're losing all our Strong Female Characters to Trinity Syndrome" Facto Jan 28, 17:13

Sounds like he's still bitter that his Wonder Woman project was scrapped. {nm} warcraft86 Jan 28, 12:06