There are a lot of wankers out there in the mainstream media, but there's only one that I've actually emailed to tell him so: Alleged sports writer Gregg Easterbrook. As they note at Sadly, No, plenty of people are wrong about plenty of things plenty of the time, but it takes a special kind of guy to be constantly wrong on a wide variety of ( Read more... )

The crypt scene in the BtVS episode "Villains" was extremely controversial in my corner of Buffy fandom. That being the Bronze and the various successor communities. I don't know for certain whether it was so among the general viewership, but my general sense is, not so much. What happens is basically this: In the previous episode called "Seeing ( Read more... )

After watching the Firefly episodes "Jaynestown" and "Out of Gas" back to back late on a Sunday night, I then had a dream in which (as has sometimes happened in real life) I'm trying to explain my enthusiasm for Buffy the Vampire Slayer to someone who's never seen it. But the someone was Mal Reynolds ( Read more... )

I guess this is the flip side of the topic I previously posted about... if Xander is the everyman in the BtVS universe, why is he so disliked by a segment of BtVS fans? I've seen one poster say that Xander was a more likely rapist than Spike... another claimed that he was sexually harassing Buffy during the first two seasons. I hardly think this is ( Read more... )

Recently I've been following the ongoing conversation in various political/feminist blogs about the phenomenon of "nice guys" who really aren't, and today I came across I love you just as you are if you were a little bit different by Amanda at Pandagon. It made a lot of sense, and in particular this line jumped out at me:

...the story of the ( Read more... )