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May. 6th, 2003 10:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rusty_haloI'm in a bad mood because it's finals week. Tomorrow I have to give a presentation using Buffy as an example to talk about feminism in the media. This is for the class where the professor comes from the Marti Noxon school of feminism; pretty much "Men are always bad and women are always good." I'm still lost as to what I'm going to talk about. (I think I'm going to compare Buffy to John Berger's Ways of Seeing and talk about how Buffy reverses a lot of traditional ways that women are portrayed in art and in the media. But I also have to talk about it as a representative of a form or genre, and I don't know what to compare it to. I don't watch any other "teen" shows, and I don't really think Buffy is a teen show anyway, so maybe I'll talk about it in terms of TV shows that explicity try to portray a "feminist" view of women. Guess I ought to decide, considering I have to give the presentation in less than 12 hours.)
I fell asleep in my film class last night, and since it was in a movie theater, I ended up sleeping in a really uncomfortable position. Now my back is killing me; I can barely turn to the left at all. I must be getting old; I've never felt this crappy just from sleeping the wrong way before.
God, "Touched" was boring. I'm so over this show. Not over the fandom or the fanfiction, but the show? Bleh.
So, democracies don't win wars? Either enforce a dictatorship or everything goes to hell? Uh ... oh-kay. I can see the need for strong leadership in military situations, but when strategizing? It seems to me like taking into account multiple ideas might be a good idea.
The fact that Buffy was right about the vineyard. So? She could just as easily have been wrong and led dozens of girls to their deaths. The fact that she was lucky doesn't prove anything to me about her leadership capabilities.
Willow and Kennedy kind of reminded me of Satan and Saddam Hussein in the South Park movie. You know how Satan kept wanting to chat everything out and talk about his feelings, but Saddam just wanted to get straight to the fucking? Yeah.
Plus it was so blatantly an attempt by ME to declare "Look! We don't hate lesbians! See? Lesbians!" So what if it doesn't fit into the story or with the characterizations? It reeks of all the blatant political pandering that the Willow/Tara relationship so gracefully avoided.
Faith and Wood? Such a waste of time. The Mayor was cool, though.
Spike and Buffy was just pathetic. There was nothing new here; just the same old "Spike gives everything he has; Buffy takes and takes and takes without ever giving anything back." So she deigns to let him touch her precious self; big deal. Am I supposed to enjoy watching someone grovel and heap praise upon the bitch who abused him for months and never apologized? I was really hoping Spike would develop some self-esteem this season and stop being such a damn wuss, but it's obviously never going to happen.
I took the word "redemptionist" out of my website subtitle, because if redemption = sacrificing your entire self for the sake of someone who doesn't even give a damn about you? I'd rather not call myself a redemptionist. (The standards for what fiction I archive will not change; it's been more "ambiguist" than "redemptionist" since the beginning, anyway).
I fell asleep in my film class last night, and since it was in a movie theater, I ended up sleeping in a really uncomfortable position. Now my back is killing me; I can barely turn to the left at all. I must be getting old; I've never felt this crappy just from sleeping the wrong way before.
God, "Touched" was boring. I'm so over this show. Not over the fandom or the fanfiction, but the show? Bleh.
So, democracies don't win wars? Either enforce a dictatorship or everything goes to hell? Uh ... oh-kay. I can see the need for strong leadership in military situations, but when strategizing? It seems to me like taking into account multiple ideas might be a good idea.
The fact that Buffy was right about the vineyard. So? She could just as easily have been wrong and led dozens of girls to their deaths. The fact that she was lucky doesn't prove anything to me about her leadership capabilities.
Willow and Kennedy kind of reminded me of Satan and Saddam Hussein in the South Park movie. You know how Satan kept wanting to chat everything out and talk about his feelings, but Saddam just wanted to get straight to the fucking? Yeah.
Plus it was so blatantly an attempt by ME to declare "Look! We don't hate lesbians! See? Lesbians!" So what if it doesn't fit into the story or with the characterizations? It reeks of all the blatant political pandering that the Willow/Tara relationship so gracefully avoided.
Faith and Wood? Such a waste of time. The Mayor was cool, though.
Spike and Buffy was just pathetic. There was nothing new here; just the same old "Spike gives everything he has; Buffy takes and takes and takes without ever giving anything back." So she deigns to let him touch her precious self; big deal. Am I supposed to enjoy watching someone grovel and heap praise upon the bitch who abused him for months and never apologized? I was really hoping Spike would develop some self-esteem this season and stop being such a damn wuss, but it's obviously never going to happen.
I took the word "redemptionist" out of my website subtitle, because if redemption = sacrificing your entire self for the sake of someone who doesn't even give a damn about you? I'd rather not call myself a redemptionist. (The standards for what fiction I archive will not change; it's been more "ambiguist" than "redemptionist" since the beginning, anyway).
