Oh yes, I'm sure the demonic power that gives Slayers their strength was careful to choose only highly moral Potentials imbued with a passion for helping people and who will vow to use their superstrength only for good.
'Cause, it's not like Faith ever caused any problems.
(My 'for the better' quip was a quip in the battle of the sexes or damn-the-man kind of vein, not a canon vein)
Seriously though, of course there will be bad slayers. But that sort of argument ("What If They Misuse Their Power") has been trotted out to oppose giving women the right to vote, freeing slaves, you name it. It doesn't reach me.
But that sort of argument ("What If They Misuse Their Power") has been trotted out to oppose giving women the right to vote, freeing slaves, you name it.
Those parallels only work if there were already an unknown number of men with superstrength that are only now balanced by the number of new Slayers.
Chosen didn't equalize any balance of power, it tipped it rather monstrously in favor of, not women, but hundreds of teenage girls. You seriously believe that's not a recipe for disaster?
Plus, seeing Jonothan (Jonathon? neither looks right, dammit) giving the award to her and making his speech is going to give me additional allergies given how things ended up.
Faith wouldn't have caused problems if Buffy would have just been nicer to her.
Think I can start a kerfuffle?
But that sort of argument ("What If They Misuse Their Power") has been trotted out to oppose giving women the right to vote, freeing slaves, you name it.
Those parallels only work if there were already an unknown number of men with superstrength that are only now balanced by the number of new Slayers.
No, you're working within the wrong categories. It's not a male-female thing. It's a human vs. demon thing, and as far as I can gather from canon, there are still way more demons than there are slayers.
Chosen didn't equalize any balance of power, it tipped it rather monstrously in favor of, not women, but hundreds of teenage girls. You seriously believe that's not a recipe for disaster?
Again, canon suggests there are likely to be way more demons around than slayer-powered humans.
Do I think there will be some slayer-caused disasters, girls who weren't ready, or can't handle it, or become corrupted? Oh yeah. But there's still whole army of slayers to help reign in corrupt!or-crazy!slayer. In the pre-Buffy past, there were no super-powered humans to reign in the Faithlike slayers.
The fate of the world has always previously rested on the shoulders of 1 teenaged girl. Now it's a problem because there are more? How does that fit in with the BtVS mission?
Jonothan (Jonathon? neither looks right, dammit)
That's because it is Jonathan.
With the Class Protector thing, I got a "Yeah, a cutesy umbrella makes up for three years of funny looks and shunning. I don't think so" feel. Cordy and Xander smiling at each other gave me a bigger happy. OK, well, and Angel in a tux. And Giles and Wesley in tuxes. And Xander in a tux. There's a trend there, isn't there.
One of my favorite things about the speech is that it acknowledged that Sunnydale as a whole knew that something was going on (why the hell did they stay?). The "we know that our school isn't like other schools" line satisfied one of my big issues with the show, which was how do these people not NOTICE this shit.
Plus, the "we're not friends", harkening back to "Earshot" was nice. and it was so "high school eloquent" - "When something wierd happened, you seemed to show up and stop it".
Okay, it was schmooperific. But I loved it. There are plenty of moments that I hate that other people love (i.e. every moment Kennedy or Dawn were onscreen), so we can agree to disagree.
No, you're working within the wrong categories. It's not a male-female thing. It's a human vs. demon thing
Ah, I see where you're working from.
I didn't get that from the episode even a little bit (would it have killed Joss to have one of the New!Slayers suddenly able to fight off the vampire attacking her? would it?), but if that's your argument, then ok.
I just didn't see it in Chosen. I saw a definite "girls now stronger than boys! Goooooooooooo grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrls!" type of feminism working there, which just pissed me off in defense of Xander, Giles, Andrew, etc.
(And now Elena and her DH are here, and we're going to the beach. So there won't be any more raining on Chosen for today, unless someone wants to take over from me.)
Faith wouldn't have caused problems if Buffy would have just been nicer to her.
Think I can start a kerfuffle?
You'll have to find someone who disagrees with you first.
