It's silly, I know, but I keep thinking about Joss' dad, the late Tom Whedon, a writer-producer ("Alice," "Benson," "The Golden Girls," etc.) of whom I'm a big fan. I wonder how the senior Whedon, if he were still alive, would have responded to these reports about his son. Would he have believed these men AND women who have spoken out against Joss? Would he have supported and/or defended his son?
I mean, who knows? Maybe he would have believed there's nothing wrong with that kind of "casually cruel" behavior. Maybe this was how HE had behaved BTS at all the different series he had worked on.