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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