* Note: My wife pointed out how amazingly dorky/nerdy/lame/uncool it was of me to have an internet debate/fight about a somewhat obscure Sci-Fi TV show AND introduce comic books to the argument.  My love, I’m a 30 something, wanna-be-academic with a mortgage and I drive a sensible, fuel-efficient car.  The ship for cool island set sail a long time ago and I wasn’t anywhere near the port-of-call. Sorry.

** Yes I know, I suck … 1 month between posts is unacceptable. Apologies.

So I had this long drawn out finale about Byronic heroes, understanding feminism n media, etc.  But it just got unwieldy and incoherent and long over-due (again).  A few more things on this subject:

I could go on and on about how involved Whedon is with Equality Now and how the Can’t Stop the Serenity project has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for EN.  Or that in 2006 EN recognized Whedon as one of the “men on the front lines” fighting for women’s rights. And that’s just his involvement in one organization. And so what if he talks the talk better than he walks it? He’s actually doing something. I think Whedon put it best when he said:

If I made Buffy the Lesbian Separatist [as] a series of lectures on PBS on why there should be feminism,” he has said, “no-one would be coming to the party, and it would be boring. The idea of changing culture is important to me, and it can only be done in a popular medium.”

It’s almost as if he was speaking directly to Allecto, like he’s heard the same charges levied against him before.

Feminism is useful and relevent today, maybe even more so because of how colonized our minds are by things like Girls Gone Wild, obessing as a society over Britney and Christina, video games where you can beat up and kill women, etc, etc.  But let’s put our energies into attacking the aspects of culture that NEED to be attacked.  Whedon ain’t perfect in his depiction of women, but he’s much better than most and just because he makes some mistakes doesn’t mean the positive work he’s done should be completely disregarded.

Anywho, I have another post on feminism as the father of a newborn daughter brewing somewhere in my head, but more on that later.

Next up: A defense of Texas and shortly thereafter the long awaited (at least by me) part 2 of WBTHTGP.

Cheers for now.