Oh, rant time about another media franchise I used to love: the Buffyverse. I've only just now realized its deep, deep ableism.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
Theentire concept of having a soul is established as something normative, but not universal, for humans.Having no soul makes you iredeemable
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This is despite the fact that a number of soulless beings are presented living at worst harmless lives, or causing the same harm as souled
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The entire concept of the soulless is a huge caricature of neuroatypicality created to justify mass murder by the protagonists
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(cw rape) and the attempt to use rape to walk back how obvious this was was just enormously exploitative
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White Wolf made a whole game mechanic around trying to justify what it means for vampires to be "evil versions" of the original
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it's a conceit that, I would argue, taken literally doesn't really work
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Giles' Season 1 speech is clearly an oversimplification that he tells himself to make his job easier
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Yeah I mean I know there's a fan theory that the soul stuff is all bullshit and they're all just mass killers
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it's just so weirdly inconsistent - Angelus and Angel are totally different characters
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whereas Spike regaining his soul just reverts him to his pre-Season 6 behavior
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
it actually derailed the writing, I think, the idea that being a true human was inherently valuable
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it's why everyone in the show cares so much abt Connor while the fans loathed him
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