May. 3rd, 2010

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And yet here I am, discussing Buffy again, and it's all [livejournal.com profile] stormwreath 's and[livejournal.com profile] jamalov29 's fault!

There were talks about feminism and feminist icon on their lj and it triggered that Buffy-trained muscle that has been dormant for a while, a part of my brain I thought I no longer had a use of. I told[livejournal.com profile] jamalov29 that I disagreed with her views according to which Joss had made Buffy fall from feminist grace in season6 and therefore done worse to the feminist icon then than the comics did later. I "shortly" explained myself on her lj but I need to gather my thoughts and write down something  a bit more articulate. Besides there's nothing on tv tonight!

So it's like the good old time...

Keep in mind though, that I don't read the comics and therefore won't discuss them much (that would be unfair) in this post. However, I couldn't completely avoid some reactions the comics caused and will hint at them and use what I understood from said reactions to back up my "reading".

Feminism and Buffy )


ETA: David Lavery put on his blog links to an issue of Slayage, "the journal of the Whedon studies association" and  here's a link to an essay on the limits of feminism you might want to read

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