Current Events > Renown feminist Joss Whedon confirmed was a huge creeper on Buffy set

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https://www.insider.com/michelle-trachtenberg-joss-whedon-buffy-set-2021-2

https://nypost.com/2021/02/12/michelle-trachtenberg-joss-whedon-couldnt-be-alone-with-me/

Actress Michelle Trachtenberg elaborated Thursday on claims earlier this week that her Buffy and the Vampire Slayer boss engaged in abusive behavior on his toxic set.
Trachtenberg made the cryptic new allegations against show creator Joss Whedon, 56, in an updated Instagram post: The last. Comment I will make on this. Was. There was a rule. Saying. Hes not allowed in a room alone with Michelle again, the 35-year-old wrote.
The actress was 15 when she assumed the role of Dawn Summers, the younger sister of Sarah Michelle Gellars Buffy, which she played from 2000 to 2003. Trachtenberg, who later appeared on the CWs Gossip Girl, didnt go into explicit detail about what led to the alleged rule or who put it into place.
Trachtenbergs allegations come after Charisma Carpenter, who played Cordelia Chase, posted claims of Whedons alleged toxic and hostile behavior onset. She also claimed he called her fat in a one-on-one meeting when she was pregnant.
Joss Whedon abused his power on numerous occasions while working on the sets of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, Carpenter, 50, wrote. While he found his misconduct amusing, it only served to intensify my performance anxiety, disempower me, and alienate me from my peers. The disturbing incidents triggered a chronic physical condition from which I still suffer. It is with a beating, heavy heart that I say I coped in isolation and, at times, destructively.

Trachtenberg first came forward after Gellar, 43, responded to Carpenters viral post in a statement on Instagram siding with survivors of abuse.
While I am proud to have my name associated with Buffy Summers, I dont want to be forever associated with the name Joss Whedon, Gellar posted. I stand with all survivors of abuse and am proud of them for speaking out.
Trachtenberg first responded to Gellar on Wednesday, writing: Thank you @sarahmgellar for saying this. I am brave enough now as a 35 year old woman To repost this. Because. This must. Be known. As a teenager. With his not appropriate behavior very. Not. Appropriate.
Actress Michelle Trachtenberg claims there was a rule that show creator Joss Whedon couldnt be alone with her on the Buffy set.

Reps for Whedon who parted ways with HBOs The Nevers in November have not responded to The Posts requests for comment.
The industry wunderkind first experienced a wave of negative press and soured social media buzz after his ex-wife, architect Kai Cole, accused him of cheating in a scathing online essay for The Wrap in 2017.
Cole accused the director of multiple affairs over their 15-year marriage and claimed that the first of those alleged dalliances was on the set of Buffy.
He hid multiple affairs and a number of inappropriate emotional ones that he had with his actresses, co-workers, fans and friends, while he stayed married to me, Cole wrote.
He deceived me for 15 years so he could have everything he wanted. I believed, everyone believed, that he was one of the good guys, committed to fighting for womens rights, committed to our marriage, and to the women he worked with.
A thriving Whedon fan site shutdown after 15 years amid Coles bombshell claims, including her statement that I now see how he used his relationship with me as a shield, both during and after our marriage, so no one would question his relationships with other women or scrutinize his writing as anything other than feminist.
Whedon and Cole met in 1991 and married in 1995, a year before production began on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a seminal TV show centered on a strong female hero that has often been hailed as a defining feminist series.

From what I understand he was a huge dick, the rule could of been because of that. I wouldn't let a known Kubrickian like director to be left alone with a young star either if he's just going to psychologically torment her either.

Nothing has come out about sexual abuse but we are all waiting with bated breath for some more info to come out.

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Can someone explain what's going on with Michelle Trachtenberg's periods? They're so distracting.

Yazarogi posted...

From what I understand he was a huge dick, the rule could of been because of that. I wouldn't let a known Kubrickian like director to be left alone with a young star either if he's just going to psychologically torment her either.

Nothing has come out about sexual abuse but we are all waiting with bated breath for some more info to come out.

Trachtenberg first responded to Gellar on Wednesday, writing: Thank you @sarahmgellar for saying this. I am brave enough now as a 35 year old woman To repost this. Because. This must. Be known. As a teenager. With his not appropriate behavior very. Not. Appropriate.

Whedon was a misogynist?

color me suprised.

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seems like most Hollywood people are dicks...

Yazarogi posted...

I wouldn't let a known Kubrickian like director to be left alone with a young star either if he's just going to psychologically torment her either.

I'm pretty sure psychological torment wasn't the top of the list of concerns.

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https://screenrant.com/joss-whedon-abuse-misconduct-allegations-accusations-explained/

Background_Guy posted...

Can someone explain what's going on with Michelle Trachtenberg's periods? They're so distracting.

Out of context this would be a very disturbing post

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https://twitter.com/PoorlyAgedStuff/status/1359576582071975938

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Jesus...

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DrizztLink posted...

I'm pretty sure psychological torment wasn't the top of the list of concerns.

seems like it was.

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Can the people who make my favourite things please stop being such trash?
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DeadBankerDream posted...

Can the people who make my favourite things please stop being such trash?

for real, I dont want to have to feel dirty every time I watch it.

instead of thinking about the piece of shit I think about the actors and the people working on the set, Joss is just one man, and it took many people to perfect his visions... so now Ill watch it for them.

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Godnorgosh posted...

Dawn says get out get out get out, Joss

I can still hear that.


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Background_Guy posted...

Can someone explain what's going on with Michelle Trachtenberg's periods? They're so distracting.

This post would have been more interesting if I hadn't read the article.
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WingsOfGood posted...

Joss Whedon abused his power on numerous occasions while working on the sets of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, Carpenter, 50, wrote. While he found his misconduct amusing, it only served to intensify my performance anxiety, disempower me, and alienate me from my peers. The disturbing incidents triggered a chronic physical condition from which I still suffer. It is with a beating, heavy heart that I say I coped in isolation and, at times, destructively.

damn

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Crash posted...

A male feminist is creepy?