Nicole Kidman "earned" this Whedon smack-down because she dared to advise the American people complaining about Donald Trump to just get on with their lives.
"I just say, he’s now elected, and we as a country need to support whoever is the president because that’s what the country’s based on," she said, while pointing out that she is nevertheless "very, very committed to women's issues."
Why didn't Whedon just use an image of Kidman from Stepford Wives if he wanted to convey her as someone robotic? The best observation of Whedon's attack came from Ian Miles Cheong, who tweeted that "Male feminist allies just can't stop themselves from denigrating a woman's appearance the instant she has an opinion contrary to theirs."
But Whedon's Friday Funnies didn't end there. He later tweeted,
Just this past week Martin Shkreli was permanently banned from Twitter for creating a shrine to Teen Vogue writer Lauren Duca. But Joss Whedon's incitement to violence against the man third-in-line to the Presidency goes unchallenged.
Twitter might defend themselves by pointing out the obvious satirical nature of Whedon's tweet, but was it satirical? Perhaps that is just Whedon's "process." Well, if you replace Paul Ryan with his predecessor, Nancy Pelosi, what you have is worthy of a Twitter ban, a knock on the door, and a psychiatric hold.
Twitter might justify their sanction of Whedon's tweet by pointing to his 125,000 followers, each of whom's experience on the platform would be diminished by banning Whedon.
It really tells you who Twitter would rather not use their platform at all.
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