Being Native in the Twilight Saga and The Importance of Being Sam and Emily…
I’ve gotten more than a bit of attention for my post on racism in the Twilight Saga, and more than my share of criticism. Apparently if you don’t think that the over-description of non-white vampires...
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The Hellmouth Presents: Dead Guys On Ice
In the way you would expect a two-part episode to be, Buffy, Season 2′s “What’s My Line” parts I and II have a lot to unpack in them. In the beginning of Part I it is Career Week at Sunnydale High, and...
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The 60th Anniversary of The Korean War, Hillary Clinton Visits the Korean War...
It’s the 60th Anniversary of the beginning of the Korean War. The Forgotten War, as some will call it, but if you ask my Papa, and many of the other veterans, and many of the people living here in...
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Yokota Teens Pull Childish Prank With Adult Consequenses
A group of teenagers from Yokota Air Force Base, Japan, thought that a fun prank would be to pull a length of rope across a road, for whatever reason that some (not all) teenagers decide that things...
View ArticleThe Cautionary Sex Ed Tale From Season 2 of Buffy
One of my friends, the Red Queen from Elizabitchez, told me once that she uses the story arc from Season 2 of Buffy beginning with “Surprise” to teach about sex ed and teen relationships. Or something...
View ArticleRace, Disability, Ms. Magazine (Again), and Mythbusting the IUD
It happens every now and again. Someone writes something really remarkable. A post or article that is so full of win that I want to give it as much attention as possible. It has a ring of truth that...
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Buffy is So Whiny…
Except, anyone who has spent five minutes speaking to me knows that I don’t really think that at all. And yet, I find that is a really popular opinion, and it begs the question, why that is? Because I...
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Pop Culture Good Idea/Bad Idea: Denna, Violent Portrayals of Sex and the...
Buckle on your roller skates, peeps, because this post has been a long time coming. I have watched lots of clips. I have found lots of pictures. I have been talking to people more informed than me. I...
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Liar
One episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer that perhaps has the hardest tug on the cockles of where my heart used to be, gentle readers, is Season 3′s “Helpless”. Perhaps I am just all maudlin right now,...
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Diva is the New Bitch
Melissa Silverstein at Women and Hollywood is apparently, like myself, a bit of a Katherine Heigl fangirl. I am not exactly her biggest movie fan, though I do own a couple of her Rom-Coms (on Blu-Ray...
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