{"id":2488,"date":"2009-11-21T14:32:46","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T14:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2488"},"modified":"2009-11-21T14:32:46","modified_gmt":"2009-11-21T14:32:46","slug":"a_study_in_oppo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2488","title":{"rendered":"A Study In Opposites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you know that I&#8217;m a <i>Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/i> fan. It&#8217;s one of the better-scripted series to have appeared on television with plenty of wit, depth, and cute women talking smack and kicking ass. It deserves a lot of credit for kicking off the modern pop culture fascination with all things vampire. Which brings me to the <i>Twilight <\/i>series. Now, I haven&#8217;t read any of the books or seen any of the movies, but from all the reviews I&#8217;ve read of Meyers&#8217; oeuvre, it seems like pretty weak tea compared to the <i>Buffy <\/i>series. A bunch of mopey vampires and a heroine who doesn&#8217;t really do anything heroic making googly eyes at each other. <\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebelliouspixels.com\/2009\/buffy-vs-edward-twilight-remixed\">brilliant mashup of the <i>Buffy <\/i>and <i>Twilight <\/i>franchises<\/a> lays bare the stark differences in how these two fictional universes regard women. Take a guess as to which one takes a more patriarchal view and seems to imply that stalking is perfectly acceptable behavior for hysterically emo guys. And don&#8217;t even get me started on a comparison of the dialog. Ick. Just&#8230;ick.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=695\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you know that I&#8217;m a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan. It&#8217;s one of the better-scripted series to have appeared on television with plenty of wit, depth, and cute women talking smack and kicking ass. It deserves a lot of credit for kicking off the modern pop culture fascination with all things vampire. Which <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2488' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-E8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}