Another example, of the named potentials I think the ration is 4:6 CoC:white but the group as a whole looks much more white-dominated. This is true. I need to watch "Chosen" again and have another look at the montage!
I also remember noticing that Robin’s crew of baby Slayers were all chromatic. The artist is black and might have some input on aspects of the imagery that the plot doesn’t specify. Oh, see what you've done - now I'll have to take a look at the comics, too! *g* I have already heard that there are significant named chromatic Slayers in the comics, which sounds like a promising step up. I really hated it when Chao-Ahn had to rely on looking at flashcards and was lactose intolerant but no one understood - the latter in particular is a relatively minor but quintessential issue that POC often run into in the United States, since POC are much more likely to be lactose intolerant than Caucasians. (See Barbara Kingsolver's Pigs in Heaven for one fictional treatment of the issue; a white woman adopts a Native American child and is bewildered as to why her daughter keeps getting stomach aches until a pediatrician, an African American woman, tells her what's really going on.) Inability to communicate made the problem of survival far more potentially dangerous for Chao-Ahn than it was for the other Potentials, but the show consistently treated it as a joke.
I thought it was more that Buffy only came up with the idea because she had to fight the First’s army but that it was something that should have been done irrespective of that situation. True.
The Shadowmen forced power on that one girl but what made her work for them was the fact of being the only one who could. With multiple Slayers there are other choices available than fulfill the mission or let evil win. For me it also ties in to the fact that patriarchal systems are quite happy to tolerate single powerful women, the Glorianas and the Thatchers, as long as they remain just that, singular and don’t grow into a ‘monstrous regiment.’ Well said. The choices those singular women make are often compromised by patriarchal systems, which is a problem that in turn helps deflect the pain of a wronged past and present for CoC to what it's "really" supposed to mean for characters more privileged in the narrative.
Re: "Origin Stories," part 2
Another example, of the named potentials I think the ration is 4:6 CoC:white but the group as a whole looks much more white-dominated. This is true. I need to watch "Chosen" again and have another look at the montage!
I also remember noticing that Robin’s crew of baby Slayers were all chromatic. The artist is black and might have some input on aspects of the imagery that the plot doesn’t specify. Oh, see what you've done - now I'll have to take a look at the comics, too! *g* I have already heard that there are significant named chromatic Slayers in the comics, which sounds like a promising step up. I really hated it when Chao-Ahn had to rely on looking at flashcards and was lactose intolerant but no one understood - the latter in particular is a relatively minor but quintessential issue that POC often run into in the United States, since POC are much more likely to be lactose intolerant than Caucasians. (See Barbara Kingsolver's Pigs in Heaven for one fictional treatment of the issue; a white woman adopts a Native American child and is bewildered as to why her daughter keeps getting stomach aches until a pediatrician, an African American woman, tells her what's really going on.) Inability to communicate made the problem of survival far more potentially dangerous for Chao-Ahn than it was for the other Potentials, but the show consistently treated it as a joke.
I thought it was more that Buffy only came up with the idea because she had to fight the First’s army but that it was something that should have been done irrespective of that situation. True.
The Shadowmen forced power on that one girl but what made her work for them was the fact of being the only one who could. With multiple Slayers there are other choices available than fulfill the mission or let evil win. For me it also ties in to the fact that patriarchal systems are quite happy to tolerate single powerful women, the Glorianas and the Thatchers, as long as they remain just that, singular and don’t grow into a ‘monstrous regiment.’ Well said. The choices those singular women make are often compromised by patriarchal systems, which is a problem that in turn helps deflect the pain of a wronged past and present for CoC to what it's "really" supposed to mean for characters more privileged in the narrative.