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Date Posted: 09:37:53 02/07/04 Sat
Author: Kuzibah
Author Host/IP: 68.80.18.137
Subject: Oh, you're gonna love my upcoming Valentine's story
In reply to: Maye 's message, "In honor of Valentine's coming up, and inspired by wwolfe's review..." on 21:32:34 02/06/04 Fri

And I used to have a long commute, and wrote fanfiction during it, so I did think about similar things. I'm not much of a shipper, though.

That being said, it did always bother me that once Willow became Super-Lesbian, able to leap 10,000 years of patriarchy in a single bound, they barely mentioned Oz again, and I always liked that relationship. I liked Oz's quiet devotion, and that he was willing to work on the relationship after the "Lover's Walk" incident (which broke up Xander and Cordy for good). I could have understood if Willow fell in love with Tara afterward, even if she never identified as Lesbian, because Tara was a lot like Oz in many ways. And they missed a chance to make the point that love isn't about what's in your pants, but about the whole person.

Still, for all that TV is starting to bring characters out of the closet, and despite more and more people in real life identifying as bisexual, TV characters still have rigidly defined boundaries and are either gay or straight, or they flirt once with lesbianism (never male homosexuality) then go back to being Straighty McBreederson. That Willow declared herself a lesbian after a well-established relationship with a man was unusual, but she couldn't go back and remain viable, in the conventional TV wisdom, or even be bisexual. A friend on one of my fic-lists recently pointed out that there's been one bisexual character ever on TV, and he was in an ensemble show (Bayliss on "Homocide.")

But then again, ME has always seemed to spend too much time trying to stir up romantic angsty subplots on its shows. Take Buffy. Here's a woman, supposedly a strong, independent, empowered woman, and yet she's always dating someone, getting over a breakup, or targeting the next potential partner. Sometimes, especially during the whole "oh God, my eyes" time when she and Spike had whatever they had, I kept thinking, Please, just let her slay vampires and deal with her home and Dawn and a job and growing up, and let Xander-Anya-Willow-Tara-whoever fulfill the melodrama quotient.

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[> [> Can't wait to read it! -- Maye, 19:21:16 02/08/04 Sun (68.115.39.234)

I need a little nostalgia for Valentine's Day.

And LOL at Willow, Super Lesbian. I think there's probably a parody fic in there somewhere.


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