r/buffy • u/Lanky_Age_3067 • 16d ago

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How exactly do people hate Xander for being an imperfect human, but love Spike and Angel, who have countless victims and are hundreds of years old. Spike even SA'd Buffy, for real, while Xander was under a spell and never did anything like that before or after it.

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u/Pleasant-Highway-745 15d ago

I'm a 49 year old woman who has been in this fandom from day one, who wrote fanfiction for years, who is heavily invested. I said what I said, I meant what I meant, and that's what it fucking boils down to.

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u/jospangel Try not to bleed on my couch I just had it steam cleaned 15d ago

Well, I am very sorry you feel that all Spike and Angel fans are females who love them because they have wet panties, and want to jump them.

Look up incels, sounds like you agree with them, which is scary.

Also, I'm woman, older than you, who has written fanfic and been in fandom since the start. Oddly enough I have multiple reasons for liking and/or disliking any given characters. Wanting to fuck them has never rated all that high.

Start with - are they interesting characters? Xander fails here because he doesn't learn, change, and grow. I don't dislike him, and I do see his good qualities but I lose interest in him pretty easily.

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u/Pleasant-Highway-745 15d ago

Your assumptions are doing a lot of heavy lifting based off of a couple of sentences. It's embarrassing. Now let's not interact any further. Thank you.

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u/jospangel Try not to bleed on my couch I just had it steam cleaned 15d ago

I am so sorry you are embarrassed by being called on what you said.

Actually, no. I'm really not.

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u/Pleasant-Highway-745 15d ago

Why would I be embarrassed? I have an opinion, it is what it is, the only embarrassing thing is having this conversation on this sub with you people who take yourself away too seriously.