I will gladly admit it: I am a Whedon Fan. Buffy and Firefly are two of my all-time favorite tv shows; Serenity is probably my all time favorite movie. The dude can really tell a story, and Buffy warms my otherwise cold feminist heart.

But Whedon is problematic.

Following up on the amazing Buffy decal I took last semester, I enrolled in the Firefly ( Read more... )

Did I mention that I'm taking a class (decal) on Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Because I am. And I enjoyed writing my final paper, using "Restless" (4.22) and "Chosen" (7.22) to look at the evolution of the Slayer, and I'm posting it here because I can. I'll stick it in a preview link so I don't fuck up the formatting. Oh, also, there's the class blog ( Read more... )

For FemSex (BEST CLASS AT CAL!), we all had to write a story about how we'd been violated, and we were greatly encouraged (but not required) to share it with the class in a safe space. I elected not to complete this assignment. I am sick and tired of crying over the trauma and allowing myself to be a victim. But as I sat there, hearing story after ( Read more... )

I need to get this out:

My Classics class fills me with so. much. HATE. Literally every class and story has involved rape or assault, bestiality, cannibalism, killing children and infants, enforced slavery that is often sexual in nature, and/or a general contempt or disrespect of women. And while it's depressing, I can, in some ways, accept it. The ( Read more... )