The "was aimed at guys to start with; that Joss Whedon is a good enough writer that his geek fetish-doll heroines were genuinely relatable to women doesn't change that fact" is inaccurate. I watched a video (I shy away from using the term documentary cuz it was more of a retrospective on the series) on the series a while back and the studio-executive responsible for making Buffy into a series wanted something that would speak to powerful feminine ideals to go with the "girl-power" trend of the '90's.
I'm a huge Buffy fan, so I'm very biased, but I'm offended at the characters on Buffy being debased into fetish-dolls. Without good writing aren't all characters dolls? And is it their power that makes them "fetish-dolls"? So in order to no longer be dolls they would have to lose their powers?
I appreciate the article, and I'm probably reading far too much into a side point, or potentially startng up an arguement that I don't have the time or energy to commit to at this point, but I still wanted to log in my grievance.
I'm a huge Buffy fan, so I'm very biased, but I'm offended at the characters on Buffy being debased into fetish-dolls. Without good writing aren't all characters dolls? And is it their power that makes them "fetish-dolls"? So in order to no longer be dolls they would have to lose their powers?
I appreciate the article, and I'm probably reading far too much into a side point, or potentially startng up an arguement that I don't have the time or energy to commit to at this point, but I still wanted to log in my grievance.