I'm not sure I agree with Get it Done. Although I see where you are coming from, and you aren't wrong.
What saves Get it Done - is that it is telling Buffy where the slayer came from, but she rejects that as defining her. She rejects them doing it to her too. Or continuing this condition. She says - I'm going to empower people in another way - there is another way. I'm not going to be your victim, like she was.
Which is what Booker T Washington and Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison state in their works - I'm not going to let this define me.
It's a fine line I think between - empowerment and "revenge fantasy". The TV Series Buffy did a good job sticking with empowerment and never crossing over to revenge. Steig Larrson's novels I think crossed over to revenge fantasy, much like the slasher horror films do.
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Re: Victims or social conditions?
Date: 2012-01-14 03:57 pm (UTC)What saves Get it Done - is that it is telling Buffy where the slayer came from, but she rejects that as defining her. She rejects them doing it to her too. Or continuing this condition. She says - I'm going to empower people in another way - there is another way. I'm not going to be your victim, like she was.
Which is what Booker T Washington and Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison state in their works - I'm not going to let this define me.
It's a fine line I think between - empowerment and "revenge fantasy". The TV Series Buffy did a good job sticking with empowerment and never crossing over to revenge. Steig Larrson's novels I think crossed over to revenge fantasy, much like the slasher horror films do.