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[molly_may]

Huh. SmartPop Books has put Sherilyn Kenyon's The Search for Spike's Balls essay up on their website, which has the distinction of being one of my personal most-loathed essays ever written about the Buffyverse. True story: whenever I'm asked at work to recommend vampire romances to customers (this comes up more often than you might think), I always

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[shapinglight]

So it's not a new essay, then? I can't actually bring myself to read it.

[molly_may]

No, it's years old, from the Seven Seasons of Buffy book that came out a year or so after the series ended. The synopsis is that Buffy is a testosterone vampire who drains all the manliness out of the guys she sleeps with, so it's both incredibly sexist towards Buffy, and entirely dismissive of Spike's arc from villain to hero.

So, you're not missing anything by skipping it.

[molly_may]

Now I'm afraid to read the comments on the SmartPop page! I did read through the Whedonesque thread and was pleased to see most people had the same response to that load of sexist crap that I did. Who are you on Whedonesque? I recognize a few names, like Emmie and Enisy, but I don't know yours!

[dipenates]

Wow, that's quite some parcel of misogyny she's wrapped in some epically shitty writing.

(I also think that Smart Pop has, in general, some serious quality control issues.)

[molly_may]

Yeah, it's amazing how much anti-feminist crap she managed to pack into just a few pages!

(I also think that Smart Pop has, in general, some serious quality control issues.)

Heh, I think this may be an understatement!

[petzipellepingo]

It is pretty skanky, isn't it.

[molly_may]

Totally.

[avrelia]

we need to take our legitimate spiteful satisfaction everywhere we can get it. ;)

[molly_may]

Exactly. And clearly, she deserves my spite.