[ SECRET POST #6587 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6587 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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08. [WARNING for discussion of sexual assault]

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I tend to feel like both of these were true, they're just interfacing with the story on different levels.

Within canon, it seemed entirely believable to me that this could happen, especially from Spike's side. I found it more difficult to believe that Buffy could put him in his place every other time, but *tonight* for handwavey reasons, we're supposed to know she is truly incapacitated and helpless. Given how they normally pushed at each other's limits, I thought it was IC.

In meta, though, knowing that Spike was runaway popular with the fandom but seemed to frustrate the writers, I got a very strong impression that they staged a rape scene for him, with Buffy, intending this to be his big fall from grace; as a way of manipulating the viewers into recommitting to Buffy and the straightforwardly "good" good-guys. Which of course did not happen, and I love that it didn't. Spike is a far more interesting character, to me, than the men I think Joss knowingly set up as love interests. I also think he had a fairly simplistic concept of feminism, and expected that the sort of people who embraced his version of Strong Female Character would look no farther than Spike being guilty. As if the fact that Buffy is stronger than him and, overall, the ones that called all the shots - including his being allowed to live - would mean nothing to us.