Ban the Barbie

Catherine Driscoll catherine.driscoll at adelaide.edu.au
Tue Nov 19 11:47:36 PST 2002


Oh please, not at all. Buffy manages to avoid Xena's posturing, and, unlike Xena, is as much about how people live as it is about fantasies or allegorical.

Quoting Nathan Newman <nathanne at nathannewman.org>:


> A "C"- what a frigging outrage. Although a friend was maintaining last
> week
> that Xena beat Buffy on the feminist department. (I know not currently on
> television and probably more NOW-friendly on the violence scale).
>
> -- Nathan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Liza Featherstone" <lfeather32 at erols.com>
> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 12:20 PM
> Subject: Re: Ban the Barbie
>
>
> Yeah I agreed wholeheartedly with O'R: What kind of feminists would give
> Buffy a C? It's the most feminist show on TV. But the NOW president
> couldn't
> defend that because...she'd never watched the show! She'd also never
> watched
> "Friends", much to O'R's justified mirth. It's pretty silly to go on TV
> talking about popular TV shows if you've never watched "Friends."
>
> Liza
>
> > From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> > Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> > Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:56:58 -0500
> > To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> > Subject: RE: Ban the Barbie
> >
> > ChrisD(RJ) wrote:
> >
> >> No Buffy the Vampire Slayer either,
> >> unfortunately.
> >
> > Speaking of which, following Corn's disgrace on O'Reilly last night,
> > the president of NOW was on to tout their new ratings of TV shows.
> > Buffy got a C - excessive violence! Even O'Reilly was shocked.
> >
> > Doug
>
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