You don’t think Buffy was a feminist show? I think it was far more feminist than Firefly, even if it had it’s moments of extreme misogyny.

Actually, I do think Buffy was a pretty good show for portraying female characters as something other than just damsels or objects. As I understand it, that was part of Josh’s purpose when creating the character.

On face value though, it just isn’t obvious – I find it a bit ironic.

It is, in fact, a sad truth about human life that beyond our salad days, very few of us are interesting to look at in the buff. Added to that sadness is the very unfair truth that a woman’s salad days are shorter than a man’s — really, in this precise context, only from about 15 to 20. The Nautilus and the treadmill can add a half decade or so, but by 36 the bloom is definitely off the rose.

That’s why I referred to him as a “feminist flame magnet.”

We likewise feel that an adult woman’s life, even a few months of it, is worth more than that of a hardly-formed fetus; and that the vigorous, usefully-employed, merrily procreating Michael Schiavo has a life, a life, more worthy of the name than had the incurably insensate relict of his spouse. Those like Ponnuru who think differently are working against the grain of human nature, against our feelings — yes, our feelings — about what life is. The life of a newly-formed embryo, or of a brain-damaged patient who has shown no trace of consciousness for fifteen years, is worth just as much as the life of a healthy adult, Ponnuru insists. Well, most of us instinctively but emphatically disagree, and no amount of argumentative ingenuity is likely to change our minds. Hearts, whatever.

Ain’t that excellent phrasing/framing of our side of the issue?

Doubly amusing that the creator of Firefly, and contributor to feminist causes, is also the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

You don’t think Buffy was a feminist show? I think it was far more feminist than Firefly, even if it had it’s moments of extreme misogyny.