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Wanted: Superheroines
"We need superheroines now more than ever. We need witches, mutants, slayers and freaks to fight for us." So, why isn't Buffy one of these heroines ? |
 by Elizabeth A. Allen
We need some superheroines now more than ever. We need witches, mutants, slayers and freaks to fight for us and along side us. Maybe Girls Who Bite Back, edited by Emily Pohl-Weary (Sumach Press, 2004), will help us find some.
Half the authors in GWBB think Buffy the Vampire Slayer epitomizes girl power. Let's ask her. Hey, skinny blonde teenager, you star in your own TV show. You karate-chop through vamps and demons the way that a chef juliennes carrots! You’re strong, smart and always witty. You're the coolest thing since Wonder Bread, right?
On second thought, maybe not. You see, Buffy, you ARE Wonder Bread. You're perfectly white, just like all your friends. As Candra Gill points out in her essay "Cuz the Black Chick Always Gets It First: Dynamics of Race in Buffy the Vampire Slayer," any characters of color on the show are either subservient, dead, minor, or several of the above. Buffy, you're supposed to be an Everygirl, but you aren't. Your bourgeois, homogenous world isn't as rich and as multi-colored as ours. You can't be our superhero. You're too boring.
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