RE: OT on Angel and BUffy eps on Crack

[Bionic Slayer <bionicslayer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oh my goodness Carol.....did you hit the nail on the head...or the head with a nail....or whatever 
stealing spoiler space... 
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IN the seventies there was this thing, a feminist mantra. The personal is
political. I was a teen then, and well I though it was a sucky mantra. Now
as I go crazy over Buffy I see it. I am upset at Willow's treatment as a
charter because it is personal to me. I was a gay teen. I was a nerd. I
never fit in, in school. My first boyfriend was a werewolf, ok a dog, but I
wanted to fit in so when he asked me out I jumped at the chance. (Actually
he was a band nerd, played the tuba.) I knew I was gay but I really wanted
to fit in.

So Willow is very personal to me. And watching her grow, data Tara. Be in
love with her best friend who didn't even notice her. All those things, I
felt personally. In short warm fuzzy feeling about it all. So the death of
Willow the innocent, is really the death on my innocents (which died a slow
death decades ago.)

And I really don't know how to react to Willow now. All I feel is Rage at
the death of something real or imagined that I held dear. Somehow I don't
think I am the only one feeling this. So it's personal, but it's also
political. It's not just Willow or innocent gay Willow being destroyed here.
It's a lot of young gay and lesbians icon. She is one of a hand full of
positive gay role models. The death of an icon, is like the death of a
saint. It should not go gentle in the night. 

I was a teen in the 80s...so I totally get what you're saying...same mo for me...highschool nerd (although I was a bandcamp nerd), gay...but too terrified to even think about it (mid-80s .... AIDS...etc)...and very innocent (small town girl...even smaller than a one starbuck's town...we didn't have coffee shops then...we have Czech bakeries). 

There were so few icons to look up too that my inner teenager/lesbo pup (my affectionate name for fledgling lesbians) really latched onto BtVS. Even before the W/T thing...the bond between B/W captivated me. I could live without a B/W romance on the show...if they could be the way they were...during "Dead Man's Party" and "Wild at Heart" and of course..."Choices". 

Buffy's taste in mates has always left something to be desired...save Angel before 'Surprises'....so it would just be the most bitter sweet irony if ME put B/W together...once Willow shows her bad side..... I don't see that happening though....

I became jaded last night watching Angel. All of the threads of hope I was holding onto, hoping that ME had a higher/hidden agenda going on this season of BtVS, shredded when I saw Cordelia 'ascend'.....I've lost my sappy side....

I just hope tonight's ep is good enough....I've had so much fun watching BtVS....exploring the metaphors...and chatting with folks on this list....that I just don't wanna give it up.....oh well.....

- Kathy - sad today...hoping that b-ad - a-ss compilation tape of b/w moments wasn't made in vain....






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