His humor doesn't come across well in print a lot of the time.
True. I keep trying to remind myself of that but, sometimes - sometimes - a straight answer would be nice. Or rather, it's sort of "boy who cried wolf", I have no idea when to take him seriously or not. And I'm sure he knows it.
But yeah, his apologies usually come off as "I'm sorry you were offended" rather than "I'm sorry I did something that offended you."
Yes, exactly. Which, to be fair, is not something particular to Joss. (God knows my partner and I have done it with one another enough times.) It seems common to the "baby kings", people like Baz Luhrmann for example; or corporations when customers protest unwanted changes (Netflix is a recent example that comes to mind). It actually seems to me that it's become more pervasive generally over the last 40 years? "Do anything to seem like you're apologizing but not really just to get someone else off your back." Making an genuine apology seems to have been pushed to the side as some quaint, absurd notion.
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Date: 2013-05-12 02:31 pm (UTC)True. I keep trying to remind myself of that but, sometimes - sometimes - a straight answer would be nice. Or rather, it's sort of "boy who cried wolf", I have no idea when to take him seriously or not. And I'm sure he knows it.
But yeah, his apologies usually come off as "I'm sorry you were offended" rather than "I'm sorry I did something that offended you."
Yes, exactly. Which, to be fair, is not something particular to Joss. (God knows my partner and I have done it with one another enough times.) It seems common to the "baby kings", people like Baz Luhrmann for example; or corporations when customers protest unwanted changes (Netflix is a recent example that comes to mind). It actually seems to me that it's become more pervasive generally over the last 40 years? "Do anything to seem like you're apologizing but not really just to get someone else off your back." Making an genuine apology seems to have been pushed to the side as some quaint, absurd notion.