Thank you for writing this. Very beautifully put. Perhaps a corollary to Buffy growing into and accepting the traditionally male, leadership role in S7 was the way Xander took on the traditionally female supportive role. Didn’t he want to be a fireman in 6th grade? I did love the way he kept being dismissed as just the guy who mends the windows and yet when he was struck down the house fell down with him.
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Date: 2005-06-01 06:10 pm (UTC)Perhaps a corollary to Buffy growing into and accepting the traditionally male, leadership role in S7 was the way Xander took on the traditionally female supportive role. Didn’t he want to be a fireman in 6th grade? I did love the way he kept being dismissed as just the guy who mends the windows and yet when he was struck down the house fell down with him.