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whither girl-bonding (bondage?)
I've been watching Xena, and it's been making me all melancholy about the current state of tv.
The Boy and I watched that wonderful Indiana Jones uber ep from season two, and he found it slightly off-putting because it was so camp. And in trying to explain it to him, I realized just how radical the proposition of appropriating traditional buddy/hero stories for women actually is. Because I think that's one of the reasons why Xena camps it up so much - the gigglyness softens the blow of it a little.
The end of that ep, when not!Xena and not!Gabby decide to take on the world, just the two of them, got me all misty. And I love my shows, but I wanna see more of that sort of thing. I mean, much as I love the Joss-hat, even Buffy didn't go to the place where Xena does. Men still had a central position in the Buffyverse, it was just that women did too. But Xena sidelines men in a way that I find utterly, utterly charming. More of that please, yes.
The Boy and I watched that wonderful Indiana Jones uber ep from season two, and he found it slightly off-putting because it was so camp. And in trying to explain it to him, I realized just how radical the proposition of appropriating traditional buddy/hero stories for women actually is. Because I think that's one of the reasons why Xena camps it up so much - the gigglyness softens the blow of it a little.
The end of that ep, when not!Xena and not!Gabby decide to take on the world, just the two of them, got me all misty. And I love my shows, but I wanna see more of that sort of thing. I mean, much as I love the Joss-hat, even Buffy didn't go to the place where Xena does. Men still had a central position in the Buffyverse, it was just that women did too. But Xena sidelines men in a way that I find utterly, utterly charming. More of that please, yes.