CYBERPUNK PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE, AND CULTURE – ART, TECHNE, SPIRIT
Why Joss Whedon Will Forever Be One of My Feminist Writer Icons
He depicted in Firefly with Malcolm Reynolds and Inara Serra a valid, loving relationship between a sex worker and a non-client with verve and panache.
He exploded the myth that mental illness is not a superpower.
He made rape culture a main element of a science fiction universe and no one cared.
He killed a psychotic misogynist…
By having a lonely girl… BECOME a space ship. (Firefly / Series Finale – ‘Objects in Space‘)
Whereas in Aliens, the ship was nicknamed ‘Mother’ because she was a creepy robot that treated her cargo as disposable… Firefly and the Whedonverse makes the ship human, and its cargo complicated, antagonistic, and alive.
I don’t know what Joss Whedon has done. I don’t know him personally. I don’t support sexism or mistreatment of anyone. But we can all do well to choose our villains carefully.