People are unfazed if you hate women but if you dislike dogs they assume you're a bad person

I APOLOGIZE FOR DISRUPTING YOUR SCROLL… but YOU ARE going to have lots of wins for JUNE!

I’m going to attempt to scroll back to 2011

Something I really struggle to get people to understand is that like. Sometimes there was no intentional homoerotic subtext, the author was just extremely misogynistic. Sometimes the author wasn't "secretly shipping" those two men, the author literally just hates women so much that they see them as being literally incapable of relationships with depth. Like this is kind of a big thing with misogyny actually. A lot of extremely misogynistic people truly believe that a man can only have meaningful and complex relationships with other men because they literally just think women are so inferior they only exist to birth children and clean the house. It's like when people say along the lines of "no one worships exclusively men quite like straight men do". It's just that phenomenon actually. That happens to be manifesting in a raging misogynist's writing. Writing a man character who literally only puts effort into his friendships with other men while completely ignoring his literal girlfriend or wife is actually an extremely straight thing to write. And that doesn't mean you can't ship those men or that there are no stories with actual intentional homoerotic subtext. I just think it's important to be able to recognize extreme misogyny in writing and acknowledge it without brushing it off and assuming good intentions when literally all evidence is screaming that this was a misogynistic writing choice and not a representing gay men choice.

Something BTVS does that i think is really funny for a show that is ostensibly about vampires is that it establishes vampires as like. The baseline threat. Like she's not worried about vampires. Basically ever. Theyre just vampires! Theyre like the petty criminals to her spiderman. Almost all the interesting/ threatening villains are Something Else, they keep having to bring in new and weirder bullshit because they've created a world where vampires Are Not That Scary. And it is entirely because of Buffy that this is the case, thats why The Wish is so jarring and unsettling, because you're used to writing the vamps off as one note minor threats that'll get killed off in 5 minutes, because the Slayer is supposed to be there. Without Buffy around they have the power and potential to be genuinely scary but she's so used to dealing with them that it just never happens