THIS. Like, that HUGE AND YAWNING GAP, and direct conflict, between "knowing" and FEELING is so crucial but so easy to forget, and I love that it's an explicitly foregrounded aspect of the narrative on this show.
It's just, like. Mind-blowingly on-point. Everlasting consciously constructs this id-based appeal, to the things the audience feels instead of what it knows. But even though the producers - Rachel and Quinn more than anyone - know this, hold it in conscious contempt, they're still susceptible to it.
It's forbidden for a woman to be openly ~active in the game, at the very least she has to make others buy into her passivity.
I LOVE that the show did this. I mean, it's fucking Biblical, right - she who knows the truth, gets the boot.
(it's interesting that one of mainstream fandom's biggest complaints about BtVS is the Slayer backstory, because fandom itself is always more comfortable with One Girl In All The World, The Chosen One who had her special fate forced on her by the patriarchy, than women genuinely actively climbing the ladder...)
ahaha, yes. Not that there aren't legitimate problems with the Slayer origin story, because there definitely are. But the ~~agency!!! argument kind of falls apart when it's positioned next to fandom weirdness about Willow's genuine agency and ambition.
It's just, like. Mind-blowingly on-point. Everlasting consciously constructs this id-based appeal, to the things the audience feels instead of what it knows. But even though the producers - Rachel and Quinn more than anyone - know this, hold it in conscious contempt, they're still susceptible to it.
It's forbidden for a woman to be openly ~active in the game, at the very least she has to make others buy into her passivity.
I LOVE that the show did this. I mean, it's fucking Biblical, right - she who knows the truth, gets the boot.
(it's interesting that one of mainstream fandom's biggest complaints about BtVS is the Slayer backstory, because fandom itself is always more comfortable with One Girl In All The World, The Chosen One who had her special fate forced on her by the patriarchy, than women genuinely actively climbing the ladder...)
ahaha, yes. Not that there aren't legitimate problems with the Slayer origin story, because there definitely are. But the ~~agency!!! argument kind of falls apart when it's positioned next to fandom weirdness about Willow's genuine agency and ambition.
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