Thanks! And yeah, I don't think it was homophobic either. For one thing, he didn't have to introduce the lesbians in the first place. For another, she didn't die in any way that derived from lesbianism -- indeed after Joyce, her death was the one treated with the most gravity, in some ways more even than Buffy's.
I do think TBQ has a good point that magic in the Buffyverse started out as a symbol for lesbianism, so when magic suddenly started meaning "bad addictive corrupting thing" people were not on crack to think maybe that meant lesbianism = bad addictive corrupting thing. But TBQ thinks, and I agree, that that wasn't the intent, they were just changing metaphors. (Maybe because once the lesbians come out, there's no longer need for coding, so that one had gone as far as it could go.)
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Date: 2004-04-23 06:51 am (UTC)I do think TBQ has a good point that magic in the Buffyverse started out as a symbol for lesbianism, so when magic suddenly started meaning "bad addictive corrupting thing" people were not on crack to think maybe that meant lesbianism = bad addictive corrupting thing. But TBQ thinks, and I agree, that that wasn't the intent, they were just changing metaphors. (Maybe because once the lesbians come out, there's no longer need for coding, so that one had gone as far as it could go.)
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