--- title: Joss Whedon Says He Didn't Quit Twitter Because of Feminist Backlash description: "It’s like taking the bar exam at Coachella" canonical: https://time.com/3849076/joss-whedon-twitter-2/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-06T18:57:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T06:58:54.779Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Joss Whedon Says He Didn't Quit Twitter Because of Feminist Backlash og:description: "It’s like taking the bar exam at Coachella" og:url: https://time.com/3849076/joss-whedon-twitter-2/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt53053a2a500f7109/6987eea3cd68485bf609de9d/joss-whedon.jpg?branch=production&width=828&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Joss Whedon at the European premiere of "The Avengers: Age Of Ultron" on April 21, 2015 in London. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Joss Whedon Says He Didn't Quit Twitter Because of Feminist Backlash twitter:description: "It’s like taking the bar exam at Coachella" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt53053a2a500f7109/6987eea3cd68485bf609de9d/joss-whedon.jpg?branch=production&width=828&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Joss Whedon Says He Didn't Quit Twitter Because of Feminist Backlash > Sponsored content. 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Joss Whedon at the European premiere of "The Avengers: Age Of Ultron" on April 21, 2015 in London.Karwai Tang—WireImage by [Christopher Rosen/EW](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Christopher Rosen/EW May 6, 2015 6:57 PM UTC In an interview with _BuzzFeed_, Joss Whedon explained that it wasn’t [backlash from feminists](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/05/04/joss-whedon-quits-twitter) that forced him to quit Twitter, [but rather a desire to step back into a more creative space](http://www.buzzfeed.com/adambvary/joss-whedon-on-leaving-twitter#.okL8DoWdR). “I saw a lot of people say, ‘Well, the social justice warriors destroyed one of their own!’ It’s like, Nope. That didn’t happen,” [Whedon said to _BuzzFeed_](http://www.buzzfeed.com/adambvary/joss-whedon-on-leaving-twitter#.gh8MvpPbX). He called the inference that feminism drove him offline “horsesh-t.” “Believe me, I have been attacked by militant feminists since I got on Twitter. That’s something I’m used to. Every breed of feminism is attacking every other breed, and every subsection of liberalism is always busy attacking another subsection of liberalism, because god forbid they should all band together and actually fight for the cause,” Whedon said. After the _Avengers: Age of Ultron_ director deleted his account on Monday, [many speculated that the online hate Whedon received](http://www.salon.com/2015/05/05/stop%5Fblaming%5Fa%5Frabid%5Ffeminist%5Favengers%5Fbacklash%5Ffor%5Fjoss%5Fwhedons%5Ftwitter%5Fexit/) for how the film depicted the burgeoning relationship between Black Widow and Hulk – as well as some the [general character beats in Black Widow’s story arc](http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/05/avengers-age-of-ultron-s-black-widow-disgrace.html) – were to blame. (“Yep. There is a ‘Tea Party’ equivalent of progressivism/liberalism. And they just chased Joss Whedon off Twitter. Good job, guys. Ugh,” [wrote Patton Oswalt on Twitter](https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/595339749499371520).) But Whedon said the reasons were far less sinister. “I just thought, Wait a minute, if I’m going to start writing again, I have to go to the quiet place,” Whedon said about his ultimate exit. “And this is the least quiet place I’ve ever been in my life. … It’s like taking the bar exam at Coachella. It’s like, Um, I really need to concentrate on this! Guys! Can you all just … I have to … It’s super important for my law!” Whedon’s comments to _BuzzFeed_ about the distracting nature of Twitter echo similar ones the director made to EW’s James Hibberd [after quitting the social media platform in 2013](http://www.ew.com/article/2013/09/24/joss-whedon-interview). “The moment I joined, oh my God, what a responsibility. This is enormous work – very fun, but it really started to take up a huge amount of my head space,” Whedon said at the time. “I’m making a movie, I got a responsibility, this job doesn’t pay very well. It’s a fascinating medium, it’s a fascinating social phenomenon. People are like, ‘It’s like a drug.’ Yeah, and it’s like a job. It’s just another art form. Until I have a script I truly believe in or a tweet that’s really remarkable, I can just walk away and get back to the storytelling I need to do.” For the full interview with Whedon, [head to _BuzzFeed_](http://www.buzzfeed.com/adambvary/joss-whedon-on-leaving-twitter#.gh8MvpPbX). _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/05/06/joss-whedon-twitter-feminism) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com/)_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3849076/joss-whedon-twitter-2/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3849076/joss-whedon-twitter-2/"},"headline":"Joss Whedon Says He Didn't Quit Twitter Because of Feminist Backlash","datePublished":"2015-05-06T18:57:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T06:58:54.779Z","description":"\"It’s like taking the bar exam at Coachella\"","url":"https://time.com/3849076/joss-whedon-twitter-2/","keywords":["celebrities","Internet","twitter"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt53053a2a500f7109/6987eea3cd68485bf609de9d/joss-whedon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Christopher Rosen/EW"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt53053a2a500f7109/6987eea3cd68485bf609de9d/joss-whedon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Joss Whedon at the European premiere of \"The Avengers: Age Of Ultron\" on April 21, 2015 in London.","caption":"Joss Whedon at the European premiere of \"The Avengers: Age Of Ultron\" on April 21, 2015 in London.","creditText":"Karwai Tang—WireImage","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3849076/joss-whedon-twitter-2/","name":"Joss Whedon Says He Didn't Quit Twitter Because of Feminist Backlash"}}]}] ```