From a Tumblr Ask.
Oct. 27th, 2012 06:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alex_antoninWhoreofabaddon Asked me, in response to a meme I posted: "W or U if you were already asked."
“W: Favourite superhero.”
That’s a tough one. Probably Wolverine from X-Men, since he reminds me so much of myself. Plus, those claws are so cool. But I’m also a huge fan of Buffy Summers, from “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Cuz here’s this traditionally feminine teenage girl with superpowers who kills vampires and demons and other evil beasties, but unlike most superheroes, she’s willing and able to accept help from her friends, and this makes her BETTER at her job. It’s especially cool when she finds out that the slayers were made by men for their own chauvanistic reasons and turns it against them by rebelling against the Watcher Council and forming her own group, and then activating all the slayers in the world, turning this tool of the “patriarchy” into this huge girl-power force that makes the alpha males tremble in fear. Cuz hey, I may be a guy, but I am an anarchist and a socialist, and the forces of the patriarchy are the same that keep the rich and powerful alpha males in power and keep any real change from being possible. Freedom for women means freedom for everyone from the evil alpha males.
“U: Favourite female character from a TV show.”
Well feck, I guess I answered that one already, above. :-)
“W: Favourite superhero.”
That’s a tough one. Probably Wolverine from X-Men, since he reminds me so much of myself. Plus, those claws are so cool. But I’m also a huge fan of Buffy Summers, from “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Cuz here’s this traditionally feminine teenage girl with superpowers who kills vampires and demons and other evil beasties, but unlike most superheroes, she’s willing and able to accept help from her friends, and this makes her BETTER at her job. It’s especially cool when she finds out that the slayers were made by men for their own chauvanistic reasons and turns it against them by rebelling against the Watcher Council and forming her own group, and then activating all the slayers in the world, turning this tool of the “patriarchy” into this huge girl-power force that makes the alpha males tremble in fear. Cuz hey, I may be a guy, but I am an anarchist and a socialist, and the forces of the patriarchy are the same that keep the rich and powerful alpha males in power and keep any real change from being possible. Freedom for women means freedom for everyone from the evil alpha males.
“U: Favourite female character from a TV show.”
Well feck, I guess I answered that one already, above. :-)