I mean-- and, OK, I haven't actually seen an episode, so GIANT GRAIN OF SALT. But I have read the leaked pilot script and also compulsively read reviews on dozens of LJs, so I have some picture of what's going on with the show, I think. So: I mean, every criticism I've read of Dollhouse also presumes your personal theory. The problem I've seen articulated, and the reason I'm not watching it, is that it's not OK to say that sexism is wrong if your vehicle for protesting sexism is 45 minutes of gleaming bikini-clad sexually exploited women, that you set up to be eventually subverted. That punchline isn't worth it. (And this is where the critics I've been reading point out that Whedon's strong women often become strong because they have overcome degradation, often sexualized degradation. Rather than... just being strong to begin with.)
It's the same problem as hipster racism. It's wrong, unproductive, and ACTUALLY RACIST if your vehicle for protesting racism is a 2-hour movie in which racist jokes are wallowed in for your ironic pleasure, or a televised interview in which a white comedian insults a (not-in-on-the-joke) black man at length in order to satirize racist attitudes. Wrong, and not worth it.
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Date: 2009-03-16 03:59 pm (UTC)It's the same problem as hipster racism. It's wrong, unproductive, and ACTUALLY RACIST if your vehicle for protesting racism is a 2-hour movie in which racist jokes are wallowed in for your ironic pleasure, or a televised interview in which a white comedian insults a (not-in-on-the-joke) black man at length in order to satirize racist attitudes. Wrong, and not worth it.