Did you ever have an aha! moment about a creator, like aha! that's why there's so many teenagers taking their shoes off?
Well, I had one about Joss Whedon.
There is a very specific scenerio that Whedon returns to in his shows like a dog to his vomit:
A nerd, or group of nerds, kidnaps a woman, and force her through mind control to enact scenarios where she is humiliated for the sexual enjoyment of the nerds.
This is treated as morally ambigious or fully acceptable. The (wannabee) rapists are treated as cOmPlEx ChArAcTeRs who need our understanding, not condemnation and are obvious Whedon selfinserts.
This is meant as an overview, not a full collection. I haven't watched a Whedon show in 10 plus years so please forgive slight inaccuracies. I'm trying to establish a pattern, not nail do specific instances.
The Ur-Example I remember is in Buffy, where the nerd squad kidnap this woman and force her to be their maid through some gadget. There is a strong implication they intend to keep her around as a literal sex object. She eventually snaps out of it and dies trying to leave.
Two out of three feel bad about it and face no punishment, while the third gets exploded by Willow for unrelated reasons.
My second example is the entire show Dollhouse. It's literally about a creepy nerd dude mind controlling a stable of mostly sexy women into playing dress-up as well as prostituting them.
The creep is a very cOmPlEx ChArAcTeR who sometimes does nice things for the sex slaves.
In Firefly there's a literal sexbot who ends up "marrying" the creepy nerd in a jewish ceremony.
Whedon solves the consent problem by not having her be a person in the first place. Mazel tov!
In Cabin In The Woods a Cheerleader is deliberately dumbed down by a group of nerd controllers through gas to fulfull a sexual stereotype. It is a somewhat loose example, because the nerds don't have a sexual motive. Whedon had a co-writer on this one, so I wonder who made that choice.
There are definitely more examples, but I'm not rewatching any of his shit.
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The reason I'm writing all of this is because Whedon is creator, writer and director on Buffy, Firely and Dollhouse. This is fully his creative vision. He choose to put that actress into a maid uniform and have creepy selfinserts repeat his choice while playing at being abused. He choose to make an entire show about dress up rape scenarios.
In short: Whedon has a Domination / Bimbofication fetish that is represented throughout his work. He gets off on it and tries to normalize it.