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... )