While at Equality Now’s “Make Equality Reality” event this week, Avengers director and writer of several strong female characters gave a speech about his issues with the label 'feminist'.
“The word feminist, it doesn't sit with me, it doesn't add up. First of all, on a very base level, just to listen to it. We start with fem. That's good, that's promising, you know, fem, it's nice but it's strong, f is a very porous letter, very inclusive. We go to in. Fem-in. Okay, not as impressive, but they can't all be roses terms sometimes you gotta get from A to B,” he continued.
“1st. I hate it. I hate it. Fail on 1st. It's just this little dark, black, it must be hissed. 1st! It's Germanic but not in the romantic way. It's just this terrible ending with this wonderful beginning. This word for me is so unbalanced.”
Whedon summarized his issue with the word, stating
“So feminist includes the idea that believing men and women to be equal, believing all people to be people, is not a natural state. That we don't emerge assuming that everybody in the human race is a human, that the idea of equality is just an idea that's imposed on us.”
The speech can be seen in it's entirety in the video below
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