I chuckle whenever I see the LJ user whose name is "rileysaplank" because it's so, so true. Part of it is Marc Blucas' hole-in-the-screen characterization (and in the jossverse, tall men are never unambiguously good anyway) but part of it is, well...Riley. Also I hate Sam so if he'd marry her he must be creepy too.
One good fanwank of the misogyny in the movie version of M*A*S*H* is that Hawkeye doesn't hate Margaret because she's a woman but because she's a Regular Army Asshole, and Riley starts out as enough of a Regular Army Asshole to create long-lasting detestation as far as I'm concerned. However, I did like him for as long as it took him to punch the colonel and yell, "No, sir, I'm an anarchist!" and I did feel sorry for him because Buffy treated him shabbily. I did not believe the whole running-after-the-helicopter thing for one minute, even though Miss Lonelyhearts!Jonathan was fun.
I was going to read the club_joss fic and participate, I swear, but I was daunted by its being, like, 800-googleplex pages long.
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One good fanwank of the misogyny in the movie version of M*A*S*H* is that Hawkeye doesn't hate Margaret because she's a woman but because she's a Regular Army Asshole, and Riley starts out as enough of a Regular Army Asshole to create long-lasting detestation as far as I'm concerned. However, I did like him for as long as it took him to punch the colonel and yell, "No, sir, I'm an anarchist!" and I did feel sorry for him because Buffy treated him shabbily. I did not believe the whole running-after-the-helicopter thing for one minute, even though Miss Lonelyhearts!Jonathan was fun.
I was going to read the club_joss fic and participate, I swear, but I was daunted by its being, like, 800-googleplex pages long.