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Joss Whedon’s leaked ‘Wonder Woman’ screenplay is mindblowingly sexist

this thing is so sexist it’s hard to believe Whedon wrote and submitted it on a professional basis. Constantly sexualizing and demeaning its lead character, it’s like an evil mirror universe version of the movie we eventually got....The screenplay displays a toxic attitude to Diana, with characters calling her a “bitch” or a “whore,” and commenting on her skimpy costume. Instead of being a feminist paradise, Themyscira is plagued by infighting and a lack of empathy for outsiders, and Diana even fights her own mother. Then there’s Steve Trevor, who overshadows Diana’s role from page one.

Over the last few years, Joss Whedon has faced more and more criticism from women who loved his earlier work. Buffy is still considered groundbreaking and feminist for its time, but as Whedon’s career progressed, fans noticed some troubling themes...But for all that criticism, Whedon isn’t generally considered to be a sexist filmmaker in the same way as, say, Michael Bay. The consensus is that while Buffy remains iconic, he just didn’t move with the times. Written in 2006, this screenplay suggests something worse. Along with being horribly written (“Get yo skank ass offa me,” a gangster tells his girlfriend during the nightclub scene), it portrays Wonder Woman as sexy, arrogant, and unlikeable, constantly dragged down by her love interest’s bitter critiques.

We really dodged a bullet when this screenplay was rejected. The bad news is, he’s now on track to write, direct, and produce the Batgirl movie.


Wow, really not sure what to make of all this! I haven't read the script for myself, but I can't understand what Joss was thinking if he really did make Steve Trevor the focus, and was having Diane addressed as a bitch and a whore. I know that people are a lot more cynical about Joss these days, and certainly he has his faults, but that doesn't sound like the writer of Buffy Summers to me at all