Saturday, March 06, 2004
In one of those embaressing "I'm down with the kids in the 'hood" things that political types like to do, OFSTED chief holds up Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a positive role model for girls. Which is fine and dandy just as long as, like the OFSTED chief, you've never actually watched an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, where the titular character often wins the day not by tactics, skill or intelligence but by being the heroine. Take the last season, where her idea of training Potential Slayers was to scare them and frighten them until they were convinced they were going to die, then scare them and frighten them some more. She's rightfully kicked out for one episode, feels all sorry for herself and unappreciated, then takes over again by virtue purely of being the star.
