There's a reason, I suppose, why JKR is writing a universe so dominated by male characters, the females mostly being relegated to the sidelines. And why all the "girly" girls seem to get nothing but contempt from her. She doesn't seem to have all that much respect for girls/women...
(And I don't even find Tom Felton attractive at all, and the only thing Alan Rickmore has in common with the Snape in my head is his voice.)
Indeed, look at the female 'baddies' - Millicent, who's masculine, ugly and fat; Pansy, Umbridge and Petunia who are overtly feminine, but also ugly. The female 'goodies' all seem to shun female company (McGonagall, Ginny and Hermione, to name a few) and loathe any kind of 'girlish' behaviour.
Harry seems constitutionally unable to see any other viewpoint but his own, or to trust anyone who doesn't agree 100% with him. And that's the perfect boyfriend, whereas people need to be warned away from Draco?!
Of course. I love how Draco is the 'bad' boyfriend, despite Harry being the one who's shown no hesitation about hitting people who disagree with him. I know how safe I'd feel in a bloke like that's arms! And hey, if I ever agreed with a friend over him, I know he'd react well, just as Harry did when Cho didn't immediately cast Marietta out. What an unappreciative bitch Cho was, not appreciating her 'perfect' boyfriend!
Even if I hadn't been interested in Spike at all, those comments (especially the "serial killer" one) would have raised my hackles. I'll never be able to understand how someone can create such a complex and interesting character and yet completely fail to see his complexity. Much of the problems I had with BtVS in later seasons resulted from the attempt to reduce what had become a very "grey" universe to a simple morality of black and white, where no soul=evil, slayer=good, never mind what they've actually been doing. I see the same problem in HP, and I'm not exactly thrilled.
AtS seemed to deal with this problem much more maturely... For me, the double standards annoyed. I think I got sick of Buffy fandom around 'Seeing Red' where not immediately taking poor victim Buffy's side was seen as sympathising with real life rapists, by members of the writing staff as well as the fandom.
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(And I don't even find Tom Felton attractive at all, and the only thing Alan Rickmore has in common with the Snape in my head is his voice.)
Indeed, look at the female 'baddies' - Millicent, who's masculine, ugly and fat; Pansy, Umbridge and Petunia who are overtly feminine, but also ugly.
The female 'goodies' all seem to shun female company (McGonagall, Ginny and Hermione, to name a few) and loathe any kind of 'girlish' behaviour.
Harry seems constitutionally unable to see any other viewpoint but his own, or to trust anyone who doesn't agree 100% with him. And that's the perfect boyfriend, whereas people need to be warned away from Draco?!
Of course. I love how Draco is the 'bad' boyfriend, despite Harry being the one who's shown no hesitation about hitting people who disagree with him. I know how safe I'd feel in a bloke like that's arms!
And hey, if I ever agreed with a friend over him, I know he'd react well, just as Harry did when Cho didn't immediately cast Marietta out.
What an unappreciative bitch Cho was, not appreciating her 'perfect' boyfriend!
Even if I hadn't been interested in Spike at all, those comments (especially the "serial killer" one) would have raised my hackles. I'll never be able to understand how someone can create such a complex and interesting character and yet completely fail to see his complexity. Much of the problems I had with BtVS in later seasons resulted from the attempt to reduce what had become a very "grey" universe to a simple morality of black and white, where no soul=evil, slayer=good, never mind what they've actually been doing. I see the same problem in HP, and I'm not exactly thrilled.
AtS seemed to deal with this problem much more maturely...
For me, the double standards annoyed. I think I got sick of Buffy fandom around 'Seeing Red' where not immediately taking poor victim Buffy's side was seen as sympathising with real life rapists, by members of the writing staff as well as the fandom.