Thank you.
I did not know when I came here today that this would happen. I mean, I knew I would be here, I mean the part with my mother. I would like to thank Meryl Streep and all that you have spoken so eloquently about them.
I am today evening surrounded by people of extraordinary courage. I do own one or two about courage, because I once read a book in which courage and it seemed really sounds like a lot of work, so I'll just continue writing. I write ... the most creative (?) (The most Creatist thing?) I've ever done is called a "press junket" (Promo Tour?), Which is actually pretty brave, believe me, because over and over and over and over and over and over and over again the same questions get asked. I made this up to 48 interviews a day and they are not new questions.
There is a question that I get asked almost every time I was interviewed. So I thought, tonight I share with you a question and some my answers. Because when you're asked something five hundred times, you start to really think about the answer.
Okay, so now I'm going to the reporter. It will be an amazing transformation.
- So, Joss, I, the reporter knew, like, why do you always write these strong female characters.
- I think it's up to my mother. She was an incredibly inspiring, strong, cool, sexy, funny woman and this is the kind of woman with whom I have always surrounded me, my friends, especially my wife, who is not only wiser and stronger than me, but sometimes larger - but only sometimes larger - and I think it all goes back to my mother.
- So, Joss, why do you write these strong female characters?
- Because of my father. My father and my stepfather had a lot to do with it because they appreciated spirit and determination more than anything in the women with whom they were together, and they were among the few men who understand that to acknowledge one's strength does not reduce your own.
When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I was also because they be surrounded by men who not only have no problem with the idea of a female leader, but raised from the idea and even attracted . Feel That came from these men [father and step-father] that this man [pointing to himself], created in turn, these men [the men of the Buffyverse] designed.
- So, why do you create them, as they say, women - I mean, we are now in Europe, so it is international, I just do not know where - these strong women characters?
- because these stories give people power. I've heard from different people and even felt this way and it's not just women like this, but also men. I think that something is at a protagonist, allows men to identify with her, that something opens up, he could not express otherwise, hopes and wishes that a male role model he would feel uncomfortable expressing. So, it goes over both [gender].
- So, why do you create these strong women characters?
- Because they are hot ...
- So, these strong women
- WHY YOU ASK THE EVER? - This is about the 50th Interview a row - how can it be possible that this is an issue at all. Honestly, seriously, why have you written that? Why do not you ask a hundred other men, why NO strong female characters ? Leave
I think that what I do not, it should be mentioned, much less honored - and there are others who do it - but seriously, this question is ridiculous, stop that.
- So, why do you write these strong female characters?
- Weil. Equality. no. Concept. is.
It's not what we strive for should, it is a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need to stand out as men and women on this earth. And the misogyny that is in every culture, not a true part is the condicio humana. There is life out of balance, and this Imbalance drawn something from the soul of every man who is confronted with it.
We need equality. about now.
- So, why do you write these strong female characters?
- Because you're still ask this question.