BTVS cast

The first season exemplifies the "high school as hell" concept. Buffy Summers has just moved to Sunnydale after burning down her old school's gym and hopes to escape her Slayer duties. Her plans are complicated sa pamamagitan ng Rupert Giles, her new Watcher, who reminds her of the inescapable presence of evil. Sunnydale High is built atop a Hellmouth, a portal to demon dimensions that attracts supernatural phenomena to the area. Buffy meets two schoolmates, Xander Harris and Willow Rosenberg, who help her fight evil through the series. She also gets a pag-ibig interest in the form of Angel, a vampire who has...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (and to a lesser extent its spin-off Angel) is a feminist ipakita intended to have an inspirational message about young women being strong, but I sometimes see male netizens claiming the ipakita is hatefully anti-male. They say that Joss is a misandrist (man-hater) who uses the ipakita to make women hate men to the point of enacting violence against them. This, however, is a complete misunderstanding of Buffy, Joss, and feminism in general. While there are some individual feminists who are misandrists, feminism is not misandristic in and of itself, and mainstream feminism strives...