I'm wasting an entire evening on the interbets, opening up many tabs and browsing from link to link. Coincidentally, these two links, which I came across from entirely different directions ended up in neighbouring tabs:
http://waxbanks.typepad.com/blog/2006/07/is_joss_whedon_.html (in particular
this comment and its responses)
http://finwake.blogspot.com/2006/08/resisting-self-defense.html