Goddamn Joss Whedon
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breakinglight11Ugh. Feeling angry and sorry for myself.
I remember hearing about what Joss Whedon did to Charisma Carpenter years ago. Reading that article his ex-wife wrote confirmed it for me. Then Ray Fisher spoke out. Now more voices are being added. Every time it stings me, that men like that are allowed to continue in opportunities other artists would kill for.
He gets his Victorian superhero show on HBO because of his name. I'm fighting to get my friends to watch a free ninety-minute show I poured blood into. While television executives tell me there's no market for the genre. Except if it's "by Joss Whedon."
I'm a good writer. I put in the work. I try my damnedest to treat my collaborators with as much gratitude and respect as is within my means. But though I aspire to a wide audience and maybe even the ability to make it my profession, I know that's probably never going to happen. The success enjoyed by a man like that will never be a possibility for me.
I remember hearing about what Joss Whedon did to Charisma Carpenter years ago. Reading that article his ex-wife wrote confirmed it for me. Then Ray Fisher spoke out. Now more voices are being added. Every time it stings me, that men like that are allowed to continue in opportunities other artists would kill for.
He gets his Victorian superhero show on HBO because of his name. I'm fighting to get my friends to watch a free ninety-minute show I poured blood into. While television executives tell me there's no market for the genre. Except if it's "by Joss Whedon."
I'm a good writer. I put in the work. I try my damnedest to treat my collaborators with as much gratitude and respect as is within my means. But though I aspire to a wide audience and maybe even the ability to make it my profession, I know that's probably never going to happen. The success enjoyed by a man like that will never be a possibility for me.
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