While i do not agree entirely with the original post (see local_max's post) there is a lot of thruth in there.
Our cultural consent is that men are more important than women, hence their suffering is way more important than women's suffering. And, yes, this is bad in too many ways and layers to describe in such short space (eg. the whole "2-sexes-concept" is bad to begin with and goes into criminal area with putting one of the sexes above the other).
I think what the original author describes is part of my dislike for AtS, which is mysogynistic on nearly every level (while i don't get the hatred towards Spike - but then, we like and dislike things sometimes on purely irrational standards).
I'm glad that i found a corner of the Buffy fandom which is usually well educated and able to differentiate (apart from my dislike of AtS :-P ), i'm glad that people around here seem to focus on Buffy and loving her.
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While i do not agree entirely with the original post (see local_max's post) there is a lot of thruth in there.
Our cultural consent is that men are more important than women, hence their suffering is way more important than women's suffering. And, yes, this is bad in too many ways and layers to describe in such short space (eg. the whole "2-sexes-concept" is bad to begin with and goes into criminal area with putting one of the sexes above the other).
I think what the original author describes is part of my dislike for AtS, which is mysogynistic on nearly every level (while i don't get the hatred towards Spike - but then, we like and dislike things sometimes on purely irrational standards).
I'm glad that i found a corner of the Buffy fandom which is usually well educated and able to differentiate (apart from my dislike of AtS :-P ), i'm glad that people around here seem to focus on Buffy and loving her.
Uh, and, of course, loving YOU! :)