6 thoughts on “Spreadin’ Love 526”

  1. Oh god, don’t get me started on whether Buffy was a feminist. I still have the scars over the fandom wars over that question. For fun, I shall notify my fandom friends about this post and I would not be surprised if a few wandered over there to have their say. Oh, and they will be arguing that Buffy is not a feminist. 🙂
    (Ftr, what I would say is that a reading of Buffy as feminist should be problematized, which basically means, there’s no easy answer there.)
    (OK, maybe the question is whether Buffy is/can be a feminist or whether Joss Whedon is a feminist.)

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  2. OK, I’m cheating here because I haven’t read the whole sex-specific clothing article, but I think the author is missing out on the fact that in the good old days, there was a distinction between childhood and boyhood. A child would wear a dress (much easier for diapering, by the way), while a boy would wear boy clothes. What has changed is that we gender clothing for small boys, while our forebears did not.
    Here’s the Wikipedia article on Little Lord Faunterloy (there was a craze for velvet and lace collars for boys in the US before WWI–they weren’t crazy about it):
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Lord_Fauntleroy

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  3. I never watched Buffy, but I’m going to assume it is basically the same as Scooby Doo since Sarah Michelle Gellar has played a main character in both. In the new animated series, Velma is kind of over-the-top pining for Shaggy and Daphne for Fred. Fred is a man in love with setting traps, which isn’t played a creepy as it could be. Daphne isn’t pointless, which I suppose is a concession to feminism, but I don’t think the series has particularly advanced in a socially conscious way.

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  4. Sorry, Fauntleroy.
    The Little Lord Fauntleroy craze of upper class America in the fin de siecle make at least some of Hemingway’s mother’s peculiarities more excusable. American mothers who could afford it really were putting their little boys into curls, lace collars, velvet suits, and sashes 100 years ago.

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