Sakura of DOOM

Actually serrana pretty much crystallized that for me -- VERY roughly paraphrasing what she said, it's this kind of geek fetish for stories about women who could beat the crap out of him (also the lesbians-are-hawt factor). Teeny blonde women or damaged childlike brunette women kicking ass. Which is _represented_ as feminism, was her point, because, hey! hot chicks with guns. (I must admit I love hot chicks with guns, myself -- and so do many of my friends.) You can draw good things from what he's doing, and his intentions are probably really good (aren't everyone's? Who sits up in bed and thinks, "I'm going to help strengthen the patriarchal status quo today!"), but....I'm just personally getting more and more disenchanted with him being a Big Feminist in Hollywood, referring to himself as feminist, and so on, when his response to the (awful) 'Captivity' billboards on whedonesque was, Men oppress women because they are jealous of the ABILITY TO CREATE LIFE. I loved Buffy, but Buffy fell right into the stereotype of strong-women-who-cannot-handle-emotions-and-whose-love-life-sucks, and that hurt to see.

(Pay no mind to me! I am bitter!)