No, the explanation is Joss Whedon’s weirdness about women with sexual agency. He does it to all of them. Buffy loses her virginity to Angel, Angel immediately goes bad — and how biblical is that. Buffy has the hots for Spike but it has to be hate fucking, and not because he’s hot and actually understands her (plus he…

So I mostly agree, in that 6 and 7 were kind of a drag compared to 1-5, and a lot of the storylines were dumb/irritating/infuriating. But I did really like the series finale. The battle with all the ubervamps and then the First is being Buffy and Buffy’s all dying but then she gets better and kills the First and then…

You know he ended up being Pete Campbell on Mad Men. He was so good on that show. Anyway, Connor didn’t bug me nearly as much as Fred. I could not stand her. She just set my teeth on edge.

I would have been ok with the abrupt entrance IF SHE WASN’T SO FREAKING ANNOYING.

We get it life as the slayer’s sister is hard but come on, you see the shit she has to go through. Do you really want that?? DO YOU REALLY WANT TO GET TAKEN BY CPS?? GO TO SCHOOL ALREADY AND STOP WHINING.

I loved the hate-fucking. Teenage me was ALL ABOUT IT. Why was Spike so fucking hot? The world may never know.

RACCOOOOOOOON!

Oh GOD, I’ve just remembered the one my sister told me about the boy she had a crush on at High School. Bear with me, it’s a long one. It’s also a wee bit painful.

I was about ten, and my mom’s best friend’s mother died. She was a miserable old bitch, best pictured as a cross between Tony Soprano’s mom and Mrs. Burn’s mom. Just awful and did nothing but spew hatred at everyone.

Like most of my family stories, this one is fucked up. My father died pretty young, after spending about half my life avoiding me because I look and sound too much like my mother, his ex-wife but spent time with my brother. His brothers, my uncles, don’t know me because my hag grandmother declared my brother and I…

Well, I know it’s going to be easy to criticize this guy and everything he did but, in fairness, I think he did a great job directing Argo.

Right?! Don’t you just want to go up to her all like “excuse me, I’m sorry to bother you, but I just have to tell you, I love your voice.”

As a random aside, last week on my way to work, I drove behind the police Crime Scene Unit van for a couple blocks, alas, not time enough to find a Who song on my iPod and blast it with the windows down...

I’ve always liked the name ‘Bob’ for that, because it fits any gender.

Many years ago at the group home for developmentally disabled teens where I worked there was a resident who really, really wanted to go to the best steak house in the city for his 18th birthday. He had behavior and anger issues, but was determined to earn that birthday dinner, and he managed it. So another staff…

Every sex partner? What is “sex”? Does fingering count? Oral? Anal? Stimulation to orgasm without PIV?

I don’t agree with any of that. If most people’s point of access to trans people is popular media, and the popular media keeps feeding one wildly incorrect and sensationalistic perception of trans people, then people are just going to learn the knowledge equivalent of a bad habit, and it’s going to be really difficult…

I think you’re absolutely right that as far as any interest in transgender stories goes among the cisgender population, its mostly fixated on transition narratives. And while I agree that there’s a large minority of that population that is thus fixated in a negative way - objectifying for purposes of titillation - I…

Oh, the things Marsha’s seen...

She’s seen it all before.

I love how Marsha’s just calmly abiding in the back, there. Bless her.