Joss Whedon

Joseph "Joss" Whedon (b. June 23, 1964) is a writer, director, executive producer, and creator of several television series, most famously Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He has also written several film scripts and several comic book series.

Feminism

Whedon identifies himself as a feminist, and feminist themes are common in his work. The most obvious example is the apparently weak teenage girl who is actually extremely strong and powerful, seen in Buffy, Firefly, and Serenity. Feminist scholars have examined Whedon's work, with both positive and negative assessments: see Buffy the Vampire Slayer and social issues. For his part, Whedon credits his mother as the inspiration for his feminist worldview. When Roseanne Barr asked him how he could write so well for women, he replied, "If you met my mom, you wouldn't ask." http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/09/22/1126982178268.html

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Feminist - Buffy the Vampire Slayer and social issues - Roseanne Barr

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One early model for Whedon's strong teenage girl characters was Kitty Pryde, one of the X-Men. "If there's a bigger influence on Buffy than Kitty, I don?t know what it was. She was an adolescent girl finding out she has great power and dealing with it." http://www.whedon.info/article.php3?id_article=4851 Many of Whedon's young female characters make similar discoveries. Whedon has now come full circle, writing the character of Kitty Pryde in the Astonishing X-Men comic.

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Kitty Pryde - X-Men

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