An ongoing effort to determine which entertainment franchise kills off the most girlfriends of a main character, and what that means for the world.
Joined December 2019
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Thank you to The SciFi Feminist @killjoy011 for making me sound smart with your thoughtful questions! Read my interview with her at the link.
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I have many thoughts about Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which is why it's currently setting a record for the longest analysis I've ever written for this blog. In part 1, we covered how this whole universe hates love and loves sexual violence. At long last,...
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Welcome back, dear readers, to my attempt to answer "So what about dead boyfriends?" Does Buffy, the titular vampire slayer, lose a statistically significant number of love interests to the ravages of time, monsters, and Joss Whedon's idea of good story...
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When @TheAcademy announced the Oscars nominees last week, my sister/social media manager @ktworldcomm had some THOUGHTS about the perceived snub of Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie. I agreed to let her write a guest post about it. Find it at the link.
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As I mentioned, I was thrilled to be invited to collaborate with The Sci-Fi Feminist. Check out her interview with me here and give her a follow on Instagram and the platform formerly known as Twitter at @killjoy011.
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The Sci-Fi feminist is a feminist critique icon: she did her Master's degree on the transformation of the video game heroine, Lara Croft, from the 1990s to the 2010s, and wrote her PhD thesis, on a new heroine archetype that has emerged and theorised* w...
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New Post! #BuffytheVampireSlayer has been recommended to me over the years. I've finally watched it now because it happens to be the #1 most commonly mentioned example of a female protagonist with the #CartwrightCurse. And, I have some ***thoughts.***
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The trope of a grown man "falling for" a young girl is overplayed in the media and in real life. So let me say it here, for the record: any grown man who "falls in love" with a child is a predator, full stop.
Read more: lnk.bio/s/dfgrr/buffy
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Look, I'm on a movie poster as a script consultant!
"But do you even work in film?" I hear you cry. No, I don't! I tutor multilingual English speakers at The New School's learning center, and one of my students, Shireen Khaled, made this movie as part of her thesis. I've bee...
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Male protagonists of long-running franchises tend to be unlucky in love, by which I mean their girlfriends tend to die. The Dead Fictional Girlfriends Research Report tracks and analyzes this phenomenon - its causes, its prevalence, and its implications...
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I’m in the process of researching Buffy, the Vampire Slayer and her dead fictional boyfriends. Before I can write a proper introduction post for that franchise, however, I have to deal with one uncomfortable fact: its creator is a bad, bad man.
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All I want for Christmas is for writers to start developing smart, complex female characters.
Or failing that, at least give Mrs. Claus a first name!
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Drawing on my 11 years of feminist blogging, I plan to watch Buffy and Angel while thinking both, “this is awesome” and “fine by me if Joss Whedon gets Thanos-snapped out of existence.” Then I’ll report back to you, dear readers, on how that worked out.
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If you view Whedon’s art next to his actions, therefore, you realize he absolutely understood the damage he was doing to the women in his life. He simply didn’t care.
What do we do with this? lnk.bio/s/dfgrr/whedon
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Aunt Katie (aka KT World Communications) is a "Rise of Skywalker" apologist. It's super problematic.
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I’m in the process of researching Buffy, the Vampire Slayer and her dead fictional boyfriends. Before I can write a proper introduction post for that franchise, however, I have to deal with one uncomfortable fact: its creator is a bad, bad man.
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Welcome to The Dead Fictional Girlfriends Research Report. For our new followers, here's a quick primer on what, exactly, you've gotten yourself into.
Looking forward to sharing more results soon!
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Just read the first paragraph of this story. It will make your day.
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