taboo or outside the box for Willow?

[dragonyphoenix]

Okay, let's generalize this up a bit. What might WIllow consider to be, maybe not fully taboo, but outside her box? Oh, season 1 Willow. I want her to be breaking rules to expand her boundaries.

For example, I might have her try smoking. I'm starting with her not studying for a night, which she thinks will be easy because studying or not is her choice. *grin* What else do you think Willow might try? I'd prefer things I could make sort of amusing but any ideas would be wonderful.

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[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

I mean, really, what the hell was that all about?

You're asking me? Be damned if I know.

Someone must be tad obsessed.

After the spacefrak this should not surprise us should it? Why do I continually hope for the best? Give Pollyanna a run for her money.

Weirdly enough Willow has suddenly gone all chaste and old-fashioned. Aside from Giles she's the only one not getting any. What the hell is THAT about? Based on the way they've given vamps stereotypical gay characteristics this season, I'd say someone still thinks gay people have cooties. (But grabbing your coworker's privates and biting people, or killing Slayers and having sex with their leader because a talking dog said so, or stealing someone's body and stuffing their mind into a robot without their consent is all TOTALLY ok. Yeah. Right.)

Why am I reading these again?

Bad, bad writing.

Keep reminding me of that. PLEASE.

So that issue with Allie pretty much hasn't been resolved, right? *sigh*

People say he "stepped down" - but he didn't get fired; he's now “Executive Senior Editor". I've dealt with a coworker sexually harassing me and other coworkers at a college in the past and the perp got a slap on the wrist. It wasn't until he proved to be wasting the college's time and money and not doing his job, period, that he was fired.

And I've read a lot of "I hope he gets help" statements - I hope that his victims get help and are finally believed. I also hope people start speaking up when this stuff happens but let's face it, everyone is afraid of losing their jobs. We've probably all let stuff slide in order to protect a job at one time or another. Or not even thought anything of it. boys will be boys.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

It was more of a rhetorical question. *grin*

Oh, Goddess, yes the spacefrak. I'd forgotten the spacefrak. That was so idiotic. There was so much to hate that "season".

Keep reminding me of that. PLEASE. Bad, bad writing.

Re: boys will be boys. I once read a short story that referred to a universe where a woman had, I believe, shot a man in self-defense. It became famous over there and all the woman in that verse were self-confident and didn't have to put up with this shit. The basic idea of the story was a man, disguised as a woman, was recruiting a woman from our verse because "We don't have women like you." Every once in a while I think of it and really wish I lived in that verse.

And also, remember the Tailhook scandal. It was a huge scandal at the time and I now know people who've never even heard of it. I really wish I knew how to fix society.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking about the Tailhook Scandal! Paula Coughlin, one of the whistleblowers and victims, ended up resigning from the Navy because the abuse got so bad. And people wonder why more folks don't speak up? It's not easy because of the culture we've created where abuse is quietly tolerated. The more things change....