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Buffy gets her teeth into politics: Vampire Slayer to have an abortion after drunken one-night stand

Daily Mail: She was the fresh-faced heroine of many a  teenaged boy. Pretty, at high school, dealing with the  typical problems of growing up – albeit a Chosen One with a mean line in killing  demons – Buffy the Vampire Slayer was the attractive face of fighting  evil.

But after several series of the hit action  show, Buffy has now gone off the rails – and found out she’s pregnant after a  drunken party. And in what is sure to infuriate the U.S.  anti-abortion pro-life lobby, Buffy has decided to have a termination an abortion.

After trailing the latest issue with the  teaser that Buffy is ‘distracted by a rather personal problem’, her character is  seen telling vampire Spike – who may or may not be the father - that her life is  in freefall: ‘I’m going to have an abortion.

‘I’m barely able to hold onto a job. I live  with roommates who are about to kick me out. And I can’t even hold my alcohol well enough to remember who got me pregnant.  I can handle the Slayer stuff … But  everything else I’m not ready. At least not now.’

The award-winning TV show, starring Sarah  Michelle Gellar, ran from 1997 until 2003, but her story has been continued by  creator Joss Whedon in comic book form.  He told Entertainment Weekly: ‘A woman’s  right to choose is under attack as much as it’s ever been, and that’s a terrible  and dangerous thing for this country.’

‘I don’t usually get soap box-y with this, but the thing about Buffy is all she’s going through is what women go through, and what nobody making a speech, holding up a placard, or making a movie is willing to say.

‘It’s something that over a third of American  women are going to decide to have to do in their lives. But people are so  terrified that no one will discuss the reality of it — not no one, but very few  popular entertainments, even when they say they’re dealing with this issue, they  don’t, and won’t. It’s frustrating to me. I don’t think Buffy should have a  baby. I don’t think Buffy can take care of a baby. I agree with  Buffy.’

And he told reporters: ‘Buffy was always about  the arc of a life, and it wasn’t ever going to be one of those shows where they  were perpetually in high school and never asked why.  ‘It was about change. So there’s never a time  when Buffy’s life isn’t relevant.’

Writer Andrew Chambliss added: ‘Given the  specifics of Buffy’s life at this point in the season – facing a new kind of  vampire threat, barely able to keep a job – it seemed like it would be dishonest  for Buffy to not at least entertain the question of whether she should keep or  end the pregnancy.’

But, writing in Life.news.com, Calvin  Freiburger said: ‘Whedon’s talk of abortion being a “painful” decision for young  women may be true as far as it goes, but such rhetoric is often code for  pro-choicers who really mean it’s too painful a decision for any of us  judgmental anti-choice yahoos to intrude on.’

It’s not surprising that the creator Joss Whedon would do this.  He despises capitalism and instead lauds socialism as “beautiful.” Just another round of his “soap box-y” rant.

The Green Lantern comes out as a gay homosexual superhero, superhero Northstar marries his boyfriend Kyle, and Superman renounces his U.S. Citizenship.  All in the name of “change.”  I miss the good ol’ days when Archie couldn’t decide between Betty and Veronica

h/t Anon

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Another Hollyweird multimillionaire rants against capitalism

Hollywood hypocrite Joss Whedon

The Hollywood Left are a whiny, tiresome, hypocritical bunch.

Screenwriter-producer-director-composer-occasional actor Joss Whedon has a net worth of $45 million. He acquired that enormous pile of lucre by creating and directing several successful television shows, most notably the cult favorite Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dollhouse.

Whedon just hit the big time with the blockbuster movie Avengers, which is the third highest-grossing film worldwide and the highest-grossing 2012 film, earning more than $612 million in North America, as of July 10, 2012, and over $843 million in other countries, as of July 8, 2012, for a worldwide total of $1.455 billion.

TV and movie making, of course, are capitalist enterprises that had made Whedon a multimillionaire, richer beyond most Americans’ dreams. But Whedon wants you to know that he absolutely despises capitalism and instead lauds socialism as “beautiful.”

John Nolte reports for Breitbart’s Big Hollywood, July 14, 2012, that Whedon told an audience that he was raised by people on the Upper Westside neighborhood of Manhattan in the 1970s who thought socialism was a ”beautiful concept.”

Whedon is frustrated by how socialism remains a taboo word in American politics. He blames it on — you guessed it — Republicans who calls “socialist” Obama, his administration’s many initiatives, as well as laws that advocate increasing spending on social welfare programs. Whedon traces this horrible misuse of the word “socialism” to — you guessed it — Ronald Reagan.

Whedon hysterically laments: “We are watching capitalism destroy itself right now. [America is] turning into Tsarist Russia [and] we’re creating a country of serfs. We have people trying to create structures and preserve the structures that will help the middle and working class, and people calling them socialists. It’s not Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal […] it’s some people with some sense of dignity and people who have gone off the reservation.”

Nolte wryly notes that since Whedon “is probably worth somewhere around a gajillion dollars,” he’s “obviously talking about socialism for, you know, other people.“

Nolte then challenges Whedon to walk the talk:

“Good heavens, there are probably a hundred thousand people living in poverty around Los Angeles — living on the streets, waiting tables, parking cars — waiting and working and hoping for a taste of the success Joss Whedon’s enjoyed. You know, the people Whedon is obviously referring to when he speaks of serfs.

I say, tear down those studio walls! Open those studio gates! Enough of Hollywood meritocracy! Spread the wealth!

It’s time to produce screenplays written by nobodies and cast actors who aren’t very good.

It’s time to pay gaffers and production assistants and wardrobe and make-up personnel the same amount of money as, well, Joss Whedon makes!

Lead by example, Joss.”

Hey, Whedon. I used to like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but I will never watch it again, nor will I watch Avengers when it comes out on DVD. By boycotting you, I’m really just helping you to be less of a Big Fat Filthy Rich Capitalist Pig.

~Eowyn