meta-Buffy post
10 April 2021 20:02![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
m_d_hI made fun of how none of the Scooby Gang would die in this book (others died), but Buffy the Vampire Slayer was all about death, or avoiding death.
Survival amongst death, for some.
Strong women dealing death to demons. Demons dealing death to everybody else. Strong women saving the world.
And Buffy never gets a man, relationships never work on Buffy, it's part of the narrative tension of some US TV shows, that relationships never work, like Sex in the City,
But it was good to have strong single people represented. To have a woman who is not defined by her husband represented. Despite whatever assholishness Joss Whedon has committed, he gave us this cultural representation of strong single women and a lesbian couple!, and he gave us cultural representation of grief,
We grieve poorly in the US. We do not pay enough attention to our ancestors and the cycle of life. The past and the future. What we will leave behind, and those who are left behind.
Survival amongst death, for some.
Strong women dealing death to demons. Demons dealing death to everybody else. Strong women saving the world.
And Buffy never gets a man, relationships never work on Buffy, it's part of the narrative tension of some US TV shows, that relationships never work, like Sex in the City,
But it was good to have strong single people represented. To have a woman who is not defined by her husband represented. Despite whatever assholishness Joss Whedon has committed, he gave us this cultural representation of strong single women and a lesbian couple!, and he gave us cultural representation of grief,
We grieve poorly in the US. We do not pay enough attention to our ancestors and the cycle of life. The past and the future. What we will leave behind, and those who are left behind.