It is not enough to be equal to men, when the men are acting like beasts.

My coworker just sent this link to me. How incredibly appropriate it is when considering the themes of BtVS.

From Barbara Ehrenreich's commencement speech at Barnard:

Gender equality cannot, all alone, bring about a just and peaceful world.

What I have finally come to understand, sadly and irreversibly, is that the kind of feminism based on an assumption of moral superiority on the part of women is a lazy and self-indulgent form of feminism.

Self-indulgent because it assumes that a victory for a woman - whether a diploma, a promotion, a right to serve alongside men in the military - is ipso facto - by its very nature -- a victory for humanity.

And lazy because it assumes that we have only one struggle - the struggle for gender equality - when in fact we have many more. The struggles for peace, for social justice and against imperialist and racist arrogance ... cannot, I am truly sorry to say, be folded into the struggle for gender equality.

Women do not change institutions simply just by assimilating into them.

Read the whole thing here.

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Best finale review I've read so far is here, by thedeadlyhook. I don't really even have to post anymore; she says it all better than I could, anyway.