OH JOSS. Seeing everything laid out this way makes me feel very very bitter and annoyed.
I don't know. I mean, I don't think he's totally enveloped in a place of Sex Is Bad, since Firefly, flawed and written from a privileged place though it is, never punished its women for having awesome sex. (Exploitation is another story ohmygod the gratuitous 'let's have girl-on-girl because that's super hot' in War Stories. I mean, I think exploring Inara's job as a Companion with a female client could be totally interesting, but the way it was handled was very "look at the gorgeous women giving each other massages." aaaaack.)
Back to the Buffyverse, though - the constant themes of punishment and anywhere from dubious consent to rape are. . .kind of exhausting to even look at. I don't feel it diminishes Buffy as a feminist show, but it's just upsetting and I don't even know where to go with my thoughts beyond 'omg jawdrop.'
(Also, I'm getting flashes of my old gripe with Rob Thomas's handle of rape on VMars. UGH WHY THEY GOTS TO INVENT MY FAVORITE TINY BLONDES AND THEN BRING THEM DOWN.)
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I don't know. I mean, I don't think he's totally enveloped in a place of Sex Is Bad, since Firefly, flawed and written from a privileged place though it is, never punished its women for having awesome sex. (Exploitation is another story ohmygod the gratuitous 'let's have girl-on-girl because that's super hot' in War Stories. I mean, I think exploring Inara's job as a Companion with a female client could be totally interesting, but the way it was handled was very "look at the gorgeous women giving each other massages." aaaaack.)
Back to the Buffyverse, though - the constant themes of punishment and anywhere from dubious consent to rape are. . .kind of exhausting to even look at. I don't feel it diminishes Buffy as a feminist show, but it's just upsetting and I don't even know where to go with my thoughts beyond 'omg jawdrop.'
(Also, I'm getting flashes of my old gripe with Rob Thomas's handle of rape on VMars. UGH WHY THEY GOTS TO INVENT MY FAVORITE TINY BLONDES AND THEN BRING THEM DOWN.)