Well, that was one hell of an anti-woke rant right there. I'm glad you got that off your chest, but how is any of what you said related to my point about how Buffy the Vampire Slayer would be called woke if it had been created today, within the current political context?
Imagine it! Creator of the series proclaims openly that he is a male feminist! There are multiple females on the writing team! Lead character is a young woman with preternatural strength! She was gifted these incredible powers, so she never had to train to obtain them! Such a Mary Sue! The leading man is an awkward, goofy, somewhat sexist beta male who can't defend himself most of the time! He makes men look bad! There's so much focus put on a lesbian witch! Oh and she was not initially a lesbian, but they turned her gay midway through the show to please all the woke kids! So woke, so forced! Anya? A vengeance demon who spent hundred of years torturing and killing men, yet the writers keep apologizing for her, making jokes out of her history of murder and mayhem! Who cares about men, right? What's next? Did you notice how almost all of the men Buffy sleeps with turn bad? I guess all men are just terrible people.
This is just what I could come up with on the spot. I can't imagine the amount of quotes from the show that would be picked apart by anti-woke people to prove without a doubt how the show has a political agenda, that it wants to put men in a bad light... Watcher's Council, anyone? Caleb? And many more examples! Oh and there are so many "go girl!" moments. The sequence in 'Chosen' with all the girls? So cheesy and political. The woke enterprise is literally trying to force-feed us all of this crap! So much wokeness! It is awful!
You see what I mean? I've been around these circles for over a decade, I know all of their arguments, all of the ways they find to validate their wokephobia. The point is, Buffy the Vampire Slayer would easily be qualified as woke if it was released today. I don't know what else to tell you. If the day ever comes that the Buffyverse is brought back to life, you can bet that there will be a crowd of anti-woke people who start screaming about it.
You clearly didn't read my post at all. Don't give me TL DR as yours was long and I read yours right to the end so you could at least do me the courtesy. I counteracted every single one of those points you bring up and explain thoroughly the difference between woke fiction and simply having a female lead.
I also criticised the anti woke crowd too, but the fact that you just dismissed my post as an anti woke rant shows you didn't read a word of it.
Meanwhile Xander is not a beta or whatever. He saved the world in the season finale and gets off with lots of babes, isn't made fun of for being white or male, gets to call the female hero out over things like Angel etc. Angel and Giles meanwhile are strong male characters, Oz is the most sympathetic character apart from Tara, and whilst they did make Willow gay right the way through, you'd probably get more SJW fans complaining that Willow was acting like bisexuality didn't exist. (I have seen SJWs criticise it from that perspective actually.)
Meanwhile Spike becomes good as a result of his relationship with Buffy and saves the day in the finale? Also Anya WAS an unbelievably shit character. The only reason she has any fans at all is thanks to Emma Caulfield being both gorgeous and a likable, funny, charismatic actress. They should have cast Emma as a different character, hell even just a Cordette who was moved by the graduation day battle or something as Anya is crap in terms of how she is written.
You absolutely 100 percent can say that Anya's inclusion did preach double standards against men. Warren kills TWO women, both in fairly quick ways (one was an accident) and the show tells us he deserves to be slowly tortured to death, flayed and burned into ash. Anya, tortured and killed hundreds and thousands of innocent men in the most horrific ways, including condemning them to eternal torture, and for the exact same bigoted reasons as Warren (my relationship with one broke down, they are all pigs, why didn't one want me etc), she is presented as a bubbly, quirky, likable character.
However to be fair Buffy was 30 years ago now almost. Society changes. That's like holding up a 60s Star Trek or DW and saying the way they portrayed women (Star Trek) or black people (Doctor Who) wouldn't fly today. Of course they wouldn't, same way perhaps some aspects of how Buffy portrayed men wouldn't fly today. Back in the 90s we thought it was just so refreshing for a woman to be dominant over a man in any situation because of girl power and women being pushed into the background before, where as now we are more aware of how women can abuse men physically too, so things like Buffy absolutely pummelling Spike in their relationship wouldn't be glossed over quite as much.
That's the problem with the SJW things. THEY are old fashioned in how they write men and how they write women. On the one hand they write the women characters as though it's the 50s, and they are the first people to ever have female heroes, yet they go even further than any double standards in old 90s girl power shows like Buffy, Xena and Charmed ever did. I made all that clear in the post above.
