This is officially the most brilliant article ever

[lirazel]

...and all of you who have even the slightest interest in Buffy Summers should go read it now. It's attacking the idea of Buffy being whiny, and the whole thing made me want to shout, "YES!"

It's been posted at ontd_feminism, but there are only 14 comments at the moment and they already make me upset, so I thought I'd post it here so we could have a friendlier discussion where we don't have to defend our love of the later seasons and of Spike and whatever else is being bashed over there.

So! Go forth and read it! You'll be glad you did!

Comments

[jeymien.livejournal.com]

Yes! I just don't get how it is that female superheroes are treated so differently. She wasn't whiny! I mean.. if a regular person was going through the things she went through (without the addition of superhero-ness vampire slaying end of the worldage) - ie mother dying, becoming her sister's guardian, no finances so having to drop out of college and work minimum wage, etc... handling that without becoming stressed or depressed.. not gonna happen. In fact, her depression just over those things would be easily clinically diagnosed! For some reason superheroines are held to such a higher standard... love love this.