In the speech that Joss talks about why does he create such strong women characters, he says that his mother was strong tough and sexy and that he surrounds himself with these women that are really strong. So in the show firefly there are a few women characters that are very strong and like the character Zoe she is very strong minded and she always stands by the captain and at times disagrees with the with him but she stands next to him as a solider no matter what, she is also solider that fought in battle with mal regardless of her being kind of manly she is very pretty and is a loving wife.

The way Joss created these women characters I believe he is a feminist because in the show firefly there are some examples of feminism for example when the captain had the wife she was cooking for him she wanted to serve him in any way that she could just because she was a wife. This  is showing that women are kind of not equal to men. In episode six where mals wife is serving him food and something to drink and Zoë and wash come to the table,  wash states that he is hungry and Zoë does nothing about it, and the fact that Mals wife makes a statement about only good wives or women serve or make their husbands food.  Then Zoë gets mad because to me it seems that wash and her put themselves as equal, in other words just because Zoë is a wife does not mean she has to serve him. Instead of spending time making meals she is out in the field being an outlaw with the crew kicking ass. I do not think joss contradicts himself because he shows a type of feminism can be created with the males and females in the show firefly which is showing equality in such ways.  

Another good example is Kylee is practically a handy lady she can fix anything on the ship. Her character is geeky and smart and beautiful and very handy like a handy man but better. This is another example of showing equality if a guy can do it why can’t a girl. I don’t think firefly is contradicting because any one woman can fix things like Kylee or kick ass like Zoë. Joss just inputs a lot of equality in making such strong women characters. Like inputting the idea of a little bit of male in every women character and coming  up with women characters like Zoe an Kylee.