Daydream Believer

PhD student regrets choosing Buffy The Vampire Slayer as thesis topic -- This is an Onion-esque article about academic Buffy studies. You know, it really is silly. I'm sure glad I didn't waste any time writing lengthy academic papers tying Buffy into whatever topic I could wrangle it into when I was in college... what?

Five years ago, Wasserman believed that Buffy was a "uniquely nuanced cultural text", a view she now believes was prompted solely by her enthusiasm for the popular TV show. "I thought that Buffy was a new type of cultural apparatus that could establish the co-ordinates of a more fluid, less repressive form of gendered indentity," she says. "But looking back, I think I just had the hots for Giles."

Hee.

Via Whedonesque.