I vaguely recall a quote or button or icon or something Feminism is the radical notion that women are also human or, to put it another way, feminism is about men and women being equals. That Buffy ending? Does it put women as more powerful than men?
I originally must have misinterpreted the numbers, but I imagined a fair percentage of all women suddenly gaining superpowers, and I thought uh-oh. If as slight a strength difference as men naturally have over women has made such an impact on history, then what happens when it's slayer strength versus a normal human? If it's received as a gender-wide thing, then an oppressed subset of the species isn't likely to use its new powers to be sweet and gentle with its former oppressors. If, on the other hand, "yay woman solidarity" isn't the result, then we'll have further division of the species into type A women and type B women: the superior type and the inferior type. That can only turn out badly.
Maybe I've thought too much about it, but my conclusion is that Joss Whedon shouldn't be trying to make Big Feminist Statements. The show does so well on its own.
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Date: 2006-05-11 07:33 am (UTC)Feminism is the radical notion that women are also human
or, to put it another way, feminism is about men and women being equals.
That Buffy ending? Does it put women as more powerful than men?
I originally must have misinterpreted the numbers, but I imagined a fair percentage of all women suddenly gaining superpowers, and I thought uh-oh. If as slight a strength difference as men naturally have over women has made such an impact on history, then what happens when it's slayer strength versus a normal human? If it's received as a gender-wide thing, then an oppressed subset of the species isn't likely to use its new powers to be sweet and gentle with its former oppressors. If, on the other hand, "yay woman solidarity" isn't the result, then we'll have further division of the species into type A women and type B women: the superior type and the inferior type. That can only turn out badly.
Maybe I've thought too much about it, but my conclusion is that Joss Whedon shouldn't be trying to make Big Feminist Statements. The show does so well on its own.