Joss Whedon is accused of fetishizing teenage girls for writing a few shows with young women in them.

Benh Zeitlin is accused of fetishizing African American poverty for writing a movie with poor black people in it.

So odd. The liberal consensus is coming to the conclusion that you should not write about anyone who is not 100% exactly like you in every way.

The fact is that if Joss Whedon hadn’t written a show (Buffy) with relatively-realistic nuanced young women in it, that show and those young women simply would not have been on the air, period.

It’s not like in Whedon’s absence that the sociopolitally-approved woman director would’ve emerged magically from clouds of mist and written Buffy and all would’ve been well in PC-land.

Nope. No Buffy without Whedon. Same is true of Benh Zeitlin’s film. No Hushpuppy.

Now, should we be working on changing this? Of fucking course. But so many liberals spend so much worthless time demanding spotless PC perfection they don’t realize that in their perfect world, nothing good would ever happen.

Is Joss Whedon a perfect writer, a perfect director? God, of course not. But Buffy is a better-written show and one that takes its young characters more seriously than many that women have written and directed. In other words, it doesn’t take a penis to write about men and it doesn’t take a vagina to write about women — even young women. I mean, duh. (That it is somehow perverse for a man to write about a young person is just…I can’t even make sense of this.)

The liberal tendency to self-immolate I will never understand, I don’t think.