“I hate ‘feminist.’ Is this a good time to bring that up?” Joss Whedon asked. He paused knowingly, waiting for the laughs he knew would come at the creator of
Buffy the Vampire Slayer making such a statement. It was 2013, and Whedon was onstage at a fundraiser for Equality Now, a human rights organization dedicated to legal equality for women. Though
Buffy had been off the air for more than a decade, its legacy still loomed large;
Whedon was widely respected as a man with a predilection for making science fiction with strong women for protagonists. Whedon went on to outline why, precisely, he hated the term: “You can’t be born an ‘ist,’” he argued, therefore, “‘feminist’ includes the idea that believing men and women to be equal, believing all people to be people, is not a natural state, that we don’t emerge assuming that everybody in the human race is a human, that the idea of equality is just an idea that’s imposed on us.”
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Next time you see a paparazzi photo of Ben Affleck distressfully juggling a tray of iced coffees, cut him some slack (despite the fact that he’s simply carrying all of those items
incorrectly). He’s clearly going through it. Sorry “Ben Ana” stans, multiple outlets have reported that our favourite quarantine couple has called it quits after almost a year of dating.
[Ben, I beg of you. Put all of the coffees in the tray, carrying the tray from the bottom, balance the carton of Munchkins on the tops of the drinks.]
A Timeline of “Ben Ana”
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