That fandom issue addressed
Sep. 15th, 2010 04:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Buffyfest: Buffy Season 8 has taken some criticism from fans who say that Buffy has lost her feminist message by way of her bank robbing, rogue slayers abusing their powers and the recent Twilight arc. How do you feel about Season 8 so far from a feminist perspective?
Jane Espenson: I hadn't heard that. I think if we try to make women characters better than we really are, then we're holding doors open for them. Let 'em be as disarmingly fallible as men. No one's better than anyone else—that's the important thing.
Buffyfest: Buffy Season 8 has taken some criticism from fans who say that Buffy has lost her feminist message by way of her bank robbing, rogue slayers abusing their powers and the recent Twilight arc. How do you feel about Season 8 so far from a feminist perspective?
Jane Espenson: I hadn't heard that. I think if we try to make women characters better than we really are, then we're holding doors open for them. Let 'em be as disarmingly fallible as men. No one's better than anyone else—that's the important thing.
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Date: 2010-09-15 05:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-15 07:30 pm (UTC)As for that question, yeah, not so much with the love. :(
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Date: 2010-09-15 08:39 pm (UTC)I wish the question had focused on whether it's a good thing to have their feminist icon rush to embrace the guy who has just stood there and told her he battered her into becoming superpowered.
So, for me, the issue isn't addressed. (And I'm mostly anti-feminist -- but this was so across the line it even bugs me).