Willow and Tara

The first season exemplifies the "high school as hell" concept. Buffy Summers has just moved to Sunnydale after burning down her old school's gym and hopes to escape her Slayer duties. Her plans are complicated par Rupert Giles, her new Watcher, who reminds her of the inescapable presence of evil. Sunnydale High is built atop a Hellmouth, a portal to demon dimensions that attracts Supernatural phenomena to the area. Buffy meets two schoolmates, Xander Harris and Willow Rosenberg, who help her fight evil through the series. She also gets a l’amour interest in the form of Angel, a vampire who has...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (and to a lesser extent its spin-off Angel) is a feminist montrer intended to have an inspirational message about young women being strong, but I sometimes see male netizens claiming the montrer is hatefully anti-male. They say that Joss is a misandrist (man-hater) who uses the montrer to make women hate men to the point of enacting violence against them. This, however, is a complete misunderstanding of Buffy, Joss, and feminism in general. While there are some individual feminists who are misandrists, feminism is not misandristic in and of itself, and mainstream feminism strives...

toi know you’re a Buffy fan when…

You can sing all the songs from “Once plus with Feeling” from memory…and if toi can’t toi stare at the words until they are engrained in your brain.

You can quote Buffy verse that is appropriate for every moment…and your Friends look at toi like you’ve grown a third eye.

You spend your grocery money on the complete Buffy series boxed set

You stay up till 2 in the morning watching reruns on fanpop

You spend hours searching for the imitation Claddagh ring Kohl’s has in their jewelry department

You decide to take up ice skating after watching “What’s...