Reading through some of the sites associated with Girl Wonder, I was perusing
Girls Read Comics and they're Pissed
(and mentally adding 'Off' at the end, rather than visualising lots of drunken comic-appreciation), and I need some help pinpointing this bit of BtVS canon:
Buffy Summers - how I loathe what was done to this character - ended up forcing oral sex on a male character over his repeated verbal objections. To a musical sting. The writers, I am fairly certain, did not actually realise they had written a rape, particularly as this same character later attempted to rape Buffy, which was not treated as at all amusing.
To which episode is she referring?
I would assume Doublemeat.
I think she's referring to Gone.
I also don't agree with her interpretation of the text there. (Or her interpretation of BoP 68, for that matter, but variety is the spice of life and blogging.)
... and I was trying to remember if it was Gone, Doublemeat, or Dead Things. But my point before I gave up and figured it'd be a crosspost anyway was going to be that she was conflating various bits of S6 (QED), and landing in a bit of the old "she raped him too, so she's as bad as he is!" pseudo-canon of the (ptui!) Spuffy wars. If anything, the point for me was always in the way things headed out-of-controlwards in very slippery steps, not any easily pinpointed moment of "girl hero gone bad".
t hugs S6 close in all its dark messy painful glory
Dude, have you met us?
snorts
Well, yeah, 'kay, point taken. Less punchy as a title for a feminist blog, though, if you give it the UK interpretation.
...I'm going to have to go and refer to the transcripts, I guess, because I can't think when Buffy forced Spike into oral sex over his verbal objections. (Haven't seen Season 6 in ages.)
I remember the scene where she beat the living crap out of him - I mean, I know that this is what she does a lot of the time, but in the Buffy-gets-framed-for-murder episode there was a really very brutal and vicious Buffy-beats-up-Spike scene, iirc. But that's obviously not what she's thinking about, so - don't know. Huh.
I think she's referring to Gone.
Yeah, that's what I think too. Spike looks down and says something like, "That's just not fair."
I can't think when Buffy forced Spike into oral sex over his verbal objections.
It's not rape if she's invisible! Mostly, I didn't see much "forcing" and "verbal objections" in that scene. Maybe a little, but the punchline, as it was, had Spike pretty much accepting the blowjob.
I am tired and sleepy. But I have hot chocolate.
But what is the "musical sting" comment all about? I wondered whether she meant "musical setting" and had somehow inserted a new scene into OMWF.
But what is the "musical sting" comment all about?
I think it's just a reference to the underscore which swelled (unsurprisingly under the circumstances) or musically indicated it was a comic moment.
