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Sexuality, Consent, and the Buffyverse
May. 7th, 2010 10:41 amA comment over on the website-which-shall-not-be-named got me thinking.
Here it is:
It is horrid but their sex brought on the end of the world so it was never meant to be a positive development. It’s already happened to her once before in Where the Wild Things Are when something urged Buffy and Riley on and they were turned into mindless sex zombies who had "no control over themselves." This time it's only has larger and more disastrous consequences.
It may be squicky but I’d still prefer that story to a story where Buffy knowingly jumped the bones of Twangel and didn’t care that the world started crumbling down around her.
There are about seventy places I could go with this (like, how very, very much I hate WtWTA), but what I really want to get to is this:
Why does questionable sex have to be at the heart of this at all? I hated WtWTA; I hate this. I'm so incredibly over Joss's whole SEX LEADS TO BADNESS thing. And reducing the entire plot of the season to Who Buffy Boinks...seriously?
So let’s talk about consent and sexual punishment in the Buffyverse. I don’t have any deep insights into it; I haven’t really done enough thinking about it for that. But I would like to start up some conversations about it.
And it’s all gonna be behind a cut for the sake of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mollivanders, as not to spoil her, and for the sake of the portion of my flist that could care less about my natterings about BtVS
( Cut for Rambling )
Here it is:
It is horrid but their sex brought on the end of the world so it was never meant to be a positive development. It’s already happened to her once before in Where the Wild Things Are when something urged Buffy and Riley on and they were turned into mindless sex zombies who had "no control over themselves." This time it's only has larger and more disastrous consequences.
It may be squicky but I’d still prefer that story to a story where Buffy knowingly jumped the bones of Twangel and didn’t care that the world started crumbling down around her.
There are about seventy places I could go with this (like, how very, very much I hate WtWTA), but what I really want to get to is this:
Why does questionable sex have to be at the heart of this at all? I hated WtWTA; I hate this. I'm so incredibly over Joss's whole SEX LEADS TO BADNESS thing. And reducing the entire plot of the season to Who Buffy Boinks...seriously?
So let’s talk about consent and sexual punishment in the Buffyverse. I don’t have any deep insights into it; I haven’t really done enough thinking about it for that. But I would like to start up some conversations about it.
And it’s all gonna be behind a cut for the sake of
mollivanders, as not to spoil her, and for the sake of the portion of my flist that could care less about my natterings about BtVS( Cut for Rambling )
