Celebrities and Coworkers React to Charisma Carpenter's Abuse Allegations Against Joss Whedon

[shangri__la]

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After Charisma Carpenter publicly spoke of the on-set abuse she suffered at the hands of Joss Whedon, celebrities and coworkers responded.

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[emerald_soul]

He better not have laid a hand on Michelle.

[khays]

She clearly says he did something inappropriate with her. Not clear whether it was physical or verbal.

[bdbdb]

I think his style was way more emotional abuse than physical. Either way, totally unacceptable!!!!!

Tweet thread

[bdbdb]

I don’t know how to embed a tweet thread but here is the link to what I personally witnessed: https://twitter.com/bdbdb/status/1359589679507533826?s=21

[dangeronshow]

that comment from michelle makes me want to throw up. as an adult i can really see what a little baby she was as dawn

i hate joss whedon so much. i know btvs has its problems but a lot of women did amazing work on that show that was really valuable to so many people (me included). i hope joss gets his soul permanently destroyed or whatever the hell happened with fred

[ljtryout]

Has Marti Noxon said anything?

[dangeronshow]

just checked her socials and nothing. did she speak out when matthew weiner got outed as an abuser?

[thatgum_youlike]

yeah, she called him an emotional terrorist iirc

[ljtryout]

I’m so happy Amber Benson spoke up too! The way she was treated always rubbed me the wrong way!

[theactualworst]

Yeah he didn't want to cast her and treated her like trash because he thought she was fat. Typical Joss.

[mrshoneybee]

Even as recently as like a month ago I posted something here about Joss treating Amber Benson like shit and people tried to defend him.

[theactualworst]

Ugh seriously??

[ahkna]

The timeline of this past year re: Whedon has been very interesting

[ljtryout]

How so?

[ahkna]

Just Ray coming forward, then the WB investigation, Joss publicly leaving that show about Victorian ladies with powers after it was filmed, Ray clearly getting punitively dropped from The Flash, now Charisma further smashing open what Ray started.

To me it sounds like there is behind the scenes stuff happening with victims speaking to each other and just not wanting to accept Warner Bros handwaving what is clearly a horrible pattern.

[analievelyn]

How is the Fandom reacting ? Is everyone falling in line behind the survivors or are they still caping for joss.

I'm very interested in user umnothanx's thoughts. She's been making the amazing btvs posts this year.

[ljtryout]

Judging from twitter alone, it’s very 70/30. Most of them are supportive, cause Buffy was always a progresive show and the fandom itself is quite progressive, but there are also the male Whedon stans that think this is an attack on his ‘god’.

[analievelyn]

ahh ok. tysm <3

[laminy]

The stans I know are all (suspiciously???) silent.