elisi: Edwin holding a tiny snowman (Xacula by beer_good_foamy)
elisi ([personal profile] elisi) wrote2010-07-17 07:29 pm

Behold! I have discovered where the idea for s8 came from!

Via this page of Joss Whedon quotes:

It’s better to be a spy in the house of love, you know ? . . . If I made ‘Buffy the Lesbian Separatist,’ a series of lectures on PBS on why there should be feminism, no one would be coming to the party, and it would be boring. The idea of changing culture is important to me, and it can only be done in a popular medium.

On the whole, I'd greatly have preferred the lectures.

ETA: Since I'm here, this vid is very, very good at showing the problematic nature of some of Joss' work:

My Medea by [livejournal.com profile] yunitsa. Many thanks to [livejournal.com profile] rm for helping me find it again.

[identity profile] penny-lane-42.livejournal.com 2010-07-17 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Barging in to say that I love you for this comment. And, honestly, for all your comments in this thread. I completely agree with you about Joss's portrayal of rape.

If you're interested, and you don't mind me self-pimping, I once compiled a list of every instance of questionable consent that my friends and I could think of in the Buffyverse. But it's got lots of spoilers for AtS and for BtVS S8, so you might not want to look at it if you intend to check those out.