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it' so so funny that buffy is canonically into kinky sex, but she's also a prude, so she genuinely believes that liking kink makes her evil. i know that she's like this because of the show is misogynistic, but it's still such a silly belief for her to have. like she's going "oh no! i like using handcuffs during sex! clearly i'm a monster!!!" and she's dead serious about it

I actually really love the fact that Buffy Summers can't drive. Almost every show ever has all their adult characters just be able to drive, usually without any particular comment on it. Like it's just assumed they should all be able to do it. But no the Chosen One, the only girl in the world who can defeat the vampires and monsters and such, she can't drive.

the reason buffy summers is a much better protagonist than a lot of the main characters in other teen supernatural shows is that those characters tend to be good people in a passive, boring way. they're generally nice and care about doing good, but they're rarely placed in situations where they have to make difficult decisions with no good outcomes, or pushed to extremes that force them to contend with the ugliest parts of themselves. btvs meanwhile is absolutely obsessed with the idea that passivity is inherently unethical. as such, in order for buffy to be a good person, she constantly has to make active choices. she never gets to be indecisive in the face of a moral dilemma. she always has to choose, to make tough calls, and that makes her genuine heroism and goodness far more compelling than a character who's just kind of passively nice.