I obviously stan Sarah Michelle Gellar but I can't condone her buffy takes. She loves Angel. She wanted Buffy and Xander to end up together. She hated Spuffy. Like sorry queen but these are Bad and Wrong Opinions. love you though.
I’m gonna be a dick here and step out of bounds a little maybe, but this isn’t a terrible surprise when you consider she had a messed up relationship with her dad and obviously so did Whedon. Angel and Xander are both Whedon shadow avatars. They represent the parts of his psyche that are most selfish and a dark and misogynistic.
Spike represents liberation and meeting the shadow and imperfection and rejection of misogynistic purity. Daddy issues really enforce the internal need to be a “good girl.” I know from experience.
Her disowning Whedon was not just about his behavior. He was a father figure of sorts. He had power over her.
Marti Noxon helped Buffy become an actual woman. Complicated. Mean. Selfish. Buffy broke bad in season six. She broke away from the male gaze of purity with the help of her girlfriend, Spike.
If SMG hasn’t met her own shadow then it’s not surprising she still has these feelings about the character. But tbh, I feel like anyone who is a Bangel doesn’t actually like Buffy the person. They just like what Buffy represents. Just like Angel. Just like early Xander.
This is my crackhead theory anyway.















