I am very vocal about my support of Equality Now. As long as women are not viewed as equal in all ways to men, everywhere in the world, Humanity will continue its ever faster descent into chaos.
As I admire Joss Whedon a great deal, I was absolutely delighted when they recognized his contributions to gender equality–and was very sad to learn, just recently, that he actually fired Charisma Carpenter from Angel because she got pregnant¹. Yes, it didn’t fit in his plans for the show, but seriously? fired her?
Total what the fuck, right?
The knowledge will taint my enjoyment of anything Whedon from now on–more’s the pity.
My current disappointment with the organization as a whole is much deeper. A helluva lot deeper, in fact.