Women in the Jossverse

[pfeifferpack]

I review a lot and tend to get wordy. While doing a review the character of Lilah came up and I started to reply to the authors response but as it got longer and more off topic decided to post it here instead. I wonder if other saw the same things I did or if I've misread the subtext, missed something that others have caught

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[nightlady_lj]

I've never thought myself that Buffy (the show) is 'feminist', some time ago I had a heated debate on this topic in an Italian forum and I was attacked by other members because I dared to express this opinion so I'm really glad to discover that others think the same! I believe it was Whedon himself to label the show as feminist and that was what started the reputation. I'm not saying it's against women (what's the opposite of feminist?) just that feminism to me is something else. It doesn't matter how many female characters are in a show imo About their strenghts you have a point, or several, in saying that too many of these strenghts are of the supernatural kind and some come from men: Buffy empowered by the Shadow's Men, Anya empowered by D'Hoffryn, Cordelia by Doyle, Darla by the Master, and so on.

Also, I haven't read all the comments but someone said that BTVS was the first show with female leads and that's why it's considered by many as being a girl power model and I wanted to point out that that's not true: Charlie's Angel's, The Bionic Woman, Wonder Woman are just a few shows prior to BTVS that pop up in my mind but I'm sure there are others. Why are they so different from Buffy?