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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 8581649" data-attributes="member: 4534">That is fair.  Our perceptions do change and what was acceptable in fiction at one point is no longer acceptable today.  See most teen comedies from the 80s for reference. You're right, most people aren't doing that.  But enough people were doing that in the late 90s and early 2000s during and after Buffy came to a conclusion that it was even mentioned in the recent "<a href="https://www.vulture.com/article/joss-whedon-allegations.html" target="_blank">Undoing of Joss Whedon</a>" article.  As the article notes, in 2002 there was an academic conference with 160 scholars who attended at the University of East Anglia.  Buffy was a show that was thoroughly analyzed online by its fandom, with the participation of Joss himself at the time, and Wikipedia even has an article about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy_studies#:~:text=Buffy%20studies%2C%20also%20called%20Buffyology,shows%20in%20the%20fictional%20Buffyverse." target="_blank">Buffy studies</a>.  And while there were people who didn't care for Whedon's work back then, I don't think anyone was calling him a hack. But if we don't like someone we tend to react unfavorably to anything they do.  Even something we'd normally be inclined to like.  What?  You didn't think "Code of Honor" was any good? Starship Troopers just isn't a good movie.  And I'm not saying that because I'm too stupid to get it or upset because it lampoons fascism.  It's just a bad movie.</blockquote>

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