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Jan. 27th, 2012 06:00 pmI can never decide if there is much point to doing cross posts from DW to LJ, because no one appears to be on DW most of the time and I get comments once in a blue moon. What do you think?
Bad week. Really bad week. Started out bad on Sunday and just dove downhill...you know it's going to be bad when a) Monday morning first thing you see upon entering your building is a sign that the bathrooms do not work any where in the building, b)it rains all week long, including that day, with only one day of sunshine. So really glad over. But brain is mush. I didn't sleep last night. And I feel like warmed over crap on a stick - yes, delightful image, I know, but there it is. Also..today was the day people kept asking me questions I hadn't a clue how to answer.
So..I found my mind retreating to comforting things.
And was thinking about Buffy the Vampire Slayer for some reason or other. I blame my infrequent skims of Mark Watches blog and my flist for this one. Well that and two recent posts on the topic of fandom, not the show.
1. Regarding fandom? The Mark Watches fandom is ironic. They have serious issues with S1-2 Xander and are obsessed with something called "slut-shaming" - yeah, I know it's new to me too..I never really heard this term until this year. These kids and their funky slang. I find this ironic (not the slut-shaming, the Xander-criticism), because...in 2002-2009...it was usually Spike was the misogynist/chauvinistic pig and Xander was the nice boyfriend everyone wanted to have for their very own. NOW? People are highly critical of Xander. And in S1-2 no less. I can't wait until they get to the latter seasons. (I honestly have no idea how they are going to relate to Spike in S4-7..) The men in this show aren't exactly nice, people, it is after-all a horror show.
Which brings me to ...
2. It has been written at length elsewhere, most notably by coffeeandink, that Whedon's Buffy was a critique of the slasher horror film genre that was incredibly popular between 1970-2002. It's sort of fallen out of favor of late, replaced briefly with torture porn, then Japanese psychological horror, and now...video camera psychological horror. But from the 1970s until roughly the beginning of the 21st Century, this was still a popular genre. And it always began with a blond, petite girl getting killed by the slasher. She'd usually just had sex with her boyfriend. The boyfriend was either killed, or he is the killer, or he finds her and gets killed.
And it's gory. Kevin Williamson's Scream flick - did a very good job of itemizing the rules -
( cut for length - Buffy, Slut shaming and the Slasher Horror Film Trope )
Bad week. Really bad week. Started out bad on Sunday and just dove downhill...you know it's going to be bad when a) Monday morning first thing you see upon entering your building is a sign that the bathrooms do not work any where in the building, b)it rains all week long, including that day, with only one day of sunshine. So really glad over. But brain is mush. I didn't sleep last night. And I feel like warmed over crap on a stick - yes, delightful image, I know, but there it is. Also..today was the day people kept asking me questions I hadn't a clue how to answer.
So..I found my mind retreating to comforting things.
And was thinking about Buffy the Vampire Slayer for some reason or other. I blame my infrequent skims of Mark Watches blog and my flist for this one. Well that and two recent posts on the topic of fandom, not the show.
1. Regarding fandom? The Mark Watches fandom is ironic. They have serious issues with S1-2 Xander and are obsessed with something called "slut-shaming" - yeah, I know it's new to me too..I never really heard this term until this year. These kids and their funky slang. I find this ironic (not the slut-shaming, the Xander-criticism), because...in 2002-2009...it was usually Spike was the misogynist/chauvinistic pig and Xander was the nice boyfriend everyone wanted to have for their very own. NOW? People are highly critical of Xander. And in S1-2 no less. I can't wait until they get to the latter seasons. (I honestly have no idea how they are going to relate to Spike in S4-7..) The men in this show aren't exactly nice, people, it is after-all a horror show.
Which brings me to ...
2. It has been written at length elsewhere, most notably by coffeeandink, that Whedon's Buffy was a critique of the slasher horror film genre that was incredibly popular between 1970-2002. It's sort of fallen out of favor of late, replaced briefly with torture porn, then Japanese psychological horror, and now...video camera psychological horror. But from the 1970s until roughly the beginning of the 21st Century, this was still a popular genre. And it always began with a blond, petite girl getting killed by the slasher. She'd usually just had sex with her boyfriend. The boyfriend was either killed, or he is the killer, or he finds her and gets killed.
And it's gory. Kevin Williamson's Scream flick - did a very good job of itemizing the rules -
( cut for length - Buffy, Slut shaming and the Slasher Horror Film Trope )