Strong Woman Vital for Equality

Joss Whedon who created programmes such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Serenity and the soon to be released Wonder Woman recently made a speech at the Equality Now conference.

Here is just a snippet from the speech where Josh explains why he creates strong women characters.

"Because—equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women. And the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who is confronted with it."

It's rather refreshing to find anyone let alone a man with these views in the media industry.

A full transcript of the speech is availble on the Forgetting what is behind blog.


I haven't actually seen any of the above yet. But I shall be adding them to my watch list.