It’s interesting how much more complaining there was about Buffy McJobbing than Xander. Well I think there was, I wasn’t really online during S4. The joy of data free conclusions.
Still is it worse for Buffy to get a crap job because she’s the hero? Because it looks more like she might be stuck in it? Or because she’s clearly middle class and Xander isn’t? (I don’t really have a good handle on the American class system.) Do the complaints about the episode reveal a degree of subliminal contempt for people who don’t make it out of fast food employment?
And here we have yet another example of how Jane E is a great woman of our times. Because, although Manny and the lifers are caricatures, she ends the episode presenting Buffy’s new boss as an eminently well-adjusted person who is sanely proud of having risen through the ranks. A working class hero on prime time TV.
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Date: 2005-03-23 05:45 pm (UTC)It’s interesting how much more complaining there was about Buffy McJobbing than Xander. Well I think there was, I wasn’t really online during S4. The joy of data free conclusions.
Still is it worse for Buffy to get a crap job because she’s the hero? Because it looks more like she might be stuck in it? Or because she’s clearly middle class and Xander isn’t? (I don’t really have a good handle on the American class system.) Do the complaints about the episode reveal a degree of subliminal contempt for people who don’t make it out of fast food employment?
And here we have yet another example of how Jane E is a great woman of our times. Because, although Manny and the lifers are caricatures, she ends the episode presenting Buffy’s new boss as an eminently well-adjusted person who is sanely proud of having risen through the ranks. A working class hero on prime time TV.