Pictured Insanity.

My favorite scene in all of buffy besides the end of season five. 

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To be completely honest, I was really disappointed once I became a teenager that there was never some hip-and-happening club that all of my friends and I would go to and buy drinks from and just dance. Having some place like the Bronze would have been the coolest thing ever in high school. 

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Reporter: So, why do you write these strong female characters?
Joss Whedon: Because you’re still asking me that question.

The question should be “Why do you write seemingly strong women and then punish them for that strength?” I see a lot of characters in this set who got shit on by Joss not to mention at least one actress he fired for the crime of getting pregnant.

A friend of mine likes to challenge “Joss Whedon, Feminist” acolytes to name a female character on Buffy who doesn’t die or go crazy.

I feel like this game could be expanded to find lead female characters who don’t die, go crazy, or lose a loved one in a gruesome way as part of their suffering. Bonus points if they get to the end without anyone threatening to rape them or trying to rape them. There has to be at least one right?

If we include those, we may as well be playing bingo. Joss Whedon’s female characters’ punishments: collect them all!

Who gets mind wiped? Who gets beaten? Who watches everything she ever loved burn? It’s a game for all ages! Bonus points for the ones who die without ever having gotten to live!

I might have feelings about Kendra. A lot of them.

Goddamit, and now I feel compelled to do an actual tally of his original female characters, albeit offhand and from memory. So:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Buffy - two deaths, one rape threat, one attempted rape, two sexual assaults, one dead parent.

Willow - one rape threat, two breaks with sanity, one dead girlfriend.

Cordelia - damselled about a billion times, one attempted forced marriage.

Anya -  one rape threat, dead.

Tara - dead.

Kendra - dead.

Faith - multiple breaks with sanity.

Ms Calender - dead.

Joyce - dead.

Dawn - one attempted forced marriage, one dead parent.

Darla - dead.

Drusilla - multiple breaks with sanity.

Angel

Cordelia - two forced impregnations, at least one sexual assault, at least one attempted rape, dead.

Fred - one attempted rape, multiple breaks with sanity, dead.

Lilah - one rape threat, dead.

Darla - multiple breaks with sanity, dead.

Drusilla - multiple breaks with sanity.

Illyria - multiple breaks with sanity.

Faith - multiple breaks with sanity.

Firefly

Kaylee - one rape threat.

River - multiple breaks with sanity.

Zoe - one dead husband.

Inara - one threat of sexual assault.

Dollhouse

As none of the Actives are capable of informed consent, pretty much every sexual interaction they have while on assignment constitutes rape or assault, even though the narrative only flags Sierra’s experiences as such. So, yeah. Also, I never saw S2, so can’t speak to what happened at that point. 

In regards to all the rape threats to his female characters: I don’t know. I think part of this is what Joss intended, though he may have gone too far at times. Most shows I see show women as ditzy, slutty, and ultimately relying on men or jobs you can get from a basic education to take care of themselves. However, in his shows, he shows women in a variety of settings with strong, independent personalities. He may take things too far and push the boundaries, but I think that’s also part of the brilliance of it. Growing up, I always thought women weren’t THAT bad off. Yeah, I know that was stupid. I knew they needed to be more equal. I knew they had a ways to go before they were equal to men. But I didn’t know they were abused. I didn’t know they weren’t safe. Then, wide-eyed, I saw one of the strongest women in the world - and my role model - Buffy almost get raped in her bathroom by a man she liked. Even though she was so strong, she couldn’t fight him off. It almost happened. And that opened my eyes. It happens to women. Even if you’re strong, that doesn’t mean it can’t happen. It can be people you trust. People you know. It’s not something that just happens to stupid women in dark alleys like the media says. 

And that’s why I think Joss is brilliant. He makes you care for these women, and he shows you how strong they are, and then MAKES you see that sexual violence can still happen to them. He forces you to see that rape and abuse are, in fact, a common occurrence among women, and that you’re not weak or stupid for it to happen. You just have to be a woman. And that’s why I always have and always will respect him for the females he creates in his shows, who remain to this day as my favorite characters from any program ever. They’re what show that women aren’t weak, and that being weak isn’t why sexual assault happens. Women don’t ask for it. You’re forced to see that what happens is forced, and there’s no excuse.

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If you don’t think Buffy was the best show ever you’re wrong.

Buffy provides input on how to pass the time. 

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