Every project includes a minimum of one female of precise Type, shoehorned in no matter how much it jars. Preferably, the entire project and plot is shaped around them and their humiliation (physical and verbal) of the men. Let’s go through a few character profiles and see if you spot a pattern. Or skip to the bolded conclusion at the end.
Yes, that is a whip.
spoilers ahoy, duh
Buffy – the prototype plot
virginal schoolgirl (alarm bells should be ringing) develops special powers and uses them to beat up men (evil vampires) every night
She sLAYS them
She has a gang of orbiters including a lesbian and a sexy father figure character whose title is Watcher. For her. Out of every girl in the world. She defends her lovers when she acquires them as if she were a jock with ‘roid rage.
You don’t own him, he isn’t a puppy.
She discovers some vampires can be good (in bed) and spares them until she finds something better and they leave town on her orders. She saves the world multiple times despite being a complete ditz with emotional instability issues and has a literal death wish. She chooses to die to protect the world and runs her mouth for entire episodes on how she wished she had stayed dead. This happens twice.
Zombie Jesus: Feminist Edition.
There’s even an entire musical number on it. It is psychologically disturbed. Naturally, she beats up demonic entities, who all happen to be male. All the evil guys are male, ever. Spoiler: Any female evil isn’t really evil, she was forced or misled or is doing it for a secretly noble reason. I’m being serious, those are the plots of Whedon stories. He can’t even get Monster of the Week right.
It’s times like this I feel the Borderline Personality criteria were based on this type of crazy bitch. One episode, she’s in an asylum. Prima role model.
Sure, he’s a ‘genius’.
Now you have the gist plot-wise and the appeal to loser men and feminists, his female characters and co. display…
Arrogance
And the fans wonder why Firefly was cancelled with hipster dialogue like that.
Superhuman Power
TK is sexy now. As are death threats?
Sexualized Baby Talk
And she’s one of the best characters, trust.
Leader, minus the dirty work
You can tell she’s cool because she’s got kooky hair.
Sexually dominant female
Notice she’s of questionable race, vaguely Asian for the hentai fetishist in the target male demo! Plus spaceships!
Body part humour
Is this musical intended for adults? This is where hipsters picked up their ironic sense of humour.
Disrespectful Attitude towards men, as a good thing
Why did no one torture her in this scene? Just tying her to a chair. No actual beating, like every male counterpart in an interrogation ?
Never gets hurt
This scene made no sense.
Of course, search all you please for other examples of Girl Power in Whedon’s work (i.e. women fucking over/fighting men and always metaphorically winning) but you’ll notice the Strong Female Character wins in the literal sense too. Black Widow closed the portal in Avengers preventing further invasion (Freudian vagina joke?), Stark’s sacrifice meant nothing to the plot (one pump chump?). Snuck that one past the fanboys, didn’t he?
Stop asking the awkward sex question.
I theorize this exertion of domination over men enjoyed by the beta/below demo of his works are a means of projecting the alpha qualities they subconsciously wish they had themselves and rationalizing them as a sexual release. Psychologically, it makes sense and explains why certain Modern Males like “bitches”. They’ve been trained to.
