Joss Whedon has some thoughts on the word "nubile"
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First time I heard the term it was the context of a young woman being prepared for marriage with clothes and oils and perfumes, and one of her attendants used it clinically and logically. For some reason people kept using it to mean sexy/bendy and from about seven years onwards I was incensed about the error.
For me It's the word 'caress'. Such a creepy word that has virtually no safe usage
Context is... at the very least it’s a conversation between the two of them and interjecting our own “jump to her defense”thoughts on the matter or his intent is hilariously overreacting.
To cause outrage over nothing. He got a few people to fall for it.
I've always had a problem feeling any outrage at the notion of grown adults having consensual sex. Whedon may well have acted in a horrible way towards his spouse by concealing what he was up to, but if I got outraged at that I'd be frothing endlessly about two thirds of Hollywood.
What? I caress my dog's back and neck every morning!
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Truly upsetting that he described what is creepy about the word
In no universe would I care what creepo Whedon thinks of the word nubile, or anything else for that matter.
It's etymologically related to "nuptials", if that helps you remember.
He held a position of power over his cast members. Over his fans. Nah, he deserves the criticism for it.
Fair enough. I know his wronged wife complained about him screwing around, but is there any suggestion that he abused his position of authority?
US versus THEM clash over something a once-loved, now-shamed pop culture celebrity said on Twitter that has been construed as problematic.
I think it's time for a break. If you're feeling slightly outraged now in these festive times, you should probably log off, spend some time with family, enjoy some good food, open some presents, and come back and revisit your outrage after you've celabrated a new year.
Good lord the amount of people responding to that Twitter thread that don’t understand irony is insane
Thank God you posted this extremely relevant link to the thread topic
I can’t follow the thought process on this one. Sure, I could see how someone could use it in a creepy way, but “caress” is a super innocuous word with tons of non-creepy usage... And all of these words pale in comparison to actual awful words, which makes all this “worst word” talk just sound dumb to begin with.
So, Hollywood is supposed to be the place where people go to take a vow of chastity? I don't see that happening. If he screwed around and lied to his wife about it, I don't see a particular problem. Unless he's divorced and you're considering him as a possible husband.
Some of y'all need to get the fuck off Twitter. There's so many threads here just based off tweets that just don't matter. Like this thread here. He's just talking about a word, THATS IT. It's not even an interesting discussion or an enlightening one or even a humorous one.
This is embarrassing. You have a very clear agenda with this thread and the entire basis of it is disingenuous.
I'm not convinced I should be reaching for my pitchfork yet. Are there any other tweets you could try to spin instead, OP?
The "now shamed" thing sounds too much like trying to make "fetch" happen. Looking at Whedon's Wikipedia page I see he's working on a big project for HBO which was announced this July.
in the context of people showing their love to each other willingly and eagerly?
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