Current Events > Was Buffy the Vampire Slayer an SJW woke TV show?

(+) Yeah! (+)

Strong female main character (Buffy)
Male friend having to regularly be rescued (Xander)
Strong male characters have to be rescued sometimes by main female (Angel, Spike)
Strong independent women who physically or verbally kicks male ass (Anya, Cordelia, Faith)
Strong female enemies
A lesbian couple (Willow and Tara)
The ending
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No. Joss Whedon has made an ass of himself in recent years, but Buffy felt very organic in its diversity. I know that I never thought of any of the characters on the show as being tokens.

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Mostly no, but there were definitely heavy handed parts too, like the ending. But for the most part, it was well written and all the woke things fit with the story, rather than woke stuff being the point of the story.

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Not realy.
To go through each of your points with spoilers, remembering the 90s did have the Girl Power movement:
Xander was described as Buffy as having more field/combat action than anyone the watcher's council could get
Ange/Spike were usually in danger in the same way any main character was, taken by surprise/someone that needed teamwork to beat
Anya/Cordelia/whoever would easily be shut the fuck up by Giles. Exception being Faith since Slayer
Again 90s Girl Power
Kiss is definitely liberal moment - Joss had very strict rules from the producers about how it was allowe
Spike saved the fucking team, Buffy and her merry band of Slayers didn't help much since the moment the Hellmouth was overrun, Spike's Amulet hit payday

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There were no black people in its cast so no.

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We live in a world where a piece of fiction can be viewed negatively based solely on it having a strong female character or one particular male side character often being rescued by said female character.
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Absolutely.

The show had very strong themes of feminism and homosexuality as well as masculinity being bad (what we would now call Toxic masculinity)

It was all about empowering women and balancing the unequalness of society. The entire show was pretty much a metaphor for just that.

The guys saying no are just making excuses because they watched it as kids.

Angel/Buffy were as "SJW" as any show being complained about today. Doesn't mean it was bad mind, just SJW.

AmericaTheBrave posted...

There were no black people in its cast so no.

Wut

yes there was
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AmericaTheBrave posted...

There were no black people in its cast so no.

It has at least one of moderate importance. Robin in season 7.

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PMarth2002 posted...

It has at least one of moderate importance. Robin in season 7.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HLBKQwdLKU
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yes! no... i dont know, i'm still unsure what SJW means...

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Bass_X0 posted...

Strong female main character

Yes

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UnfairRepresent posted...

Wut

yes there was

Not in its main cast until the last season.

It would definitely get criticized for that if it came out today, despite the rest of its "woke" stuff.

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Buffy was lit

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please stop responding to UR - the account is used to troll

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