She was rising into frame to stop someone from hitting her.

She was my favorite. She was being abused, she was empowered to stop it from EVER happening again and she was the only one that wasn't "beautiful", she wasn't a size 2 little hottie.

And the softball player is going to knock it out of the ballpark, never question why she's so strong, go to college on a softball scholarship, and all because she's got Slayer strength and speed now.

I think she knows she's a slayer, and enjoys the athletic benefits by becoming the first female major league star, but also uses her abilities to Fight Crime as her team travels from city to city.

I will not commit badfic.
I will not commit badfic.
I will not commit badfic.

You know what was really funny? I caught the last ten minutes of Enough on HBO after the Buffy finale. Made me want to gag after having seen someone spend seven years empowering women in an honest, interesting, and responsible manner.

I think she knows she's a slayer, and enjoys the athletic benefits by becoming the first female major league star, but also uses her abilities to Fight Crime as her team travels from city to city.

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I thought there was a line there about not being able to walk but now being able to. Could be wrong.

If you've got the power, fine, have the power, use the power, don't make speeches about having the power. I'm glad people felt vindicated and stronger, but power is in what you do--or don't do--not in what you say.

Oh, and Willow being more powerful than the guys who created the Slayer in the first place?

That was about Willow specifically.

Sorry, folks, this is not something I would do, it is not the way I would like to be treated, and I'm going to teach my children not to act this way. Them's my values.

I can aprreciate that, wenda, and I don't want to knock or discourage your views, but I have to say that I've snuggled with lots of people when neither of us were in love or even in danger of getting nookie, and I feel like you're saying that my snuggling with freinds is somehow "using" or "bad" or "something to teach your kids never to do."

I doubt you intend that, and I certainly hope you don't realize that you're sort of condeming a whole bunch of scenarios that don't fit into this set of definitions you're using, but I do feel condemned a little, and don't necessarily appreciate it.

I thought there was a line there about not being able to walk but now being able to.

I thought it was stand and by that I took it as standing up for themselves when they couldn't at first.

And by stand I mean.....

If you've got the power, fine, have the power, use the power, don't make speeches about having the power.

As a survivor of '70s feminism, I disagree. There's a discovery moment, when you realize "My God! I DO have the power!". You're entitled to make speeches about that moment.

That was about Willow specifically.

Yes, I know.