The problem is, surely, that only time will tell whether this becomes a problem which has to be undone and solved, or whether this particular aspect of everything is just going to go by the wayside and the real problem is going to be that OtherBuffy doesn't like BuffyBuffy, with Andrew's 'oh, I know I should have asked you and you would've said no, but I didn't and now it's done' is all the comic's going to say about it. Is this going to be a problem between Andrew (+Twangel +Kenny +everyone) and Buffy, or a catfight between Betty Draper!Buffy and (?)Peggy Olson!Buffy? Because one of these things is narrative of feminist politics and the other is just feminist lipservice and enforces the trope as much as it shows it up.
I just feel like I've seen it all before with Joss and feminism. Everything is set in place and carefully set up and it looks exactly like this great feminist critique of everything - and then there's absolutely no follow through, or the logic completely breaks down in a way that essentially undermines the message in a way I can't gloss over.
To take the abortion issue as another example, it wasn't the movement from Buffy thinking she was pregnant to deciding to terminate that was the problem, it was the anti-feminist way in which it was set up and the lack of follow through that made it not much of anything at all.
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Date: 2012-04-12 04:49 pm (UTC)I just feel like I've seen it all before with Joss and feminism. Everything is set in place and carefully set up and it looks exactly like this great feminist critique of everything - and then there's absolutely no follow through, or the logic completely breaks down in a way that essentially undermines the message in a way I can't gloss over.
To take the abortion issue as another example, it wasn't the movement from Buffy thinking she was pregnant to deciding to terminate that was the problem, it was the anti-feminist way in which it was set up and the lack of follow through that made it not much of anything at all.