Why does fanfiction undo the Subversive Nature of the Buffy/Spike Relationship in the Television Series?
by shadowkat67
It was something said offhand in a fanfic discussion - about how kinky it was to subvert the canonical Buffy/Spike relationship so that Spike was in control and Buffy was submissive. This threw me for a loop. How is this kinky, I thought? First off in about 99% of the romances and novels published in our entire history, the male is the one in control and the female is the submissive party - he's stronger than she is. We live in a patriarchial society, our presidents, leaders, rulers are men, with a few exceptions here and there. The accepted position for sex is the missionary pose - ie. the guy on top and the girl on the bottom. Also men are supposed to be the ones to initiate sex, it's considered kinky when they don't.
In Buffy, the subversion, the kink - was Buffy was shown as the dominant partner, and Spike the sex slave or submissive, yet in a lot of fanfiction, the writers turn it around.
Words: 1997, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Categories: F/M
Relationships: Spike/Buffy Summers, Angel/Buffy Summers, Riley Finn/Buffy Summers
Additional Tags: Meta; Non-fiction; fandom;
from AO3 works tagged 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)' https://ift.tt/jrKD1od via IFTTT