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zerofk

This is a pretty good episode. A hard subject is tackled pretty well. There are a couple of things that could've been better - Angel being immune to Billy's power is just lame - but most of it is very good. Lilah, one of the victims, being the one to reclaim her power and kill Billy is great. BTW not every one of the women who were attacked is dead - the woman cop survived but was forced to kill her partner.

Briony Addey

Stuff I liked about this one: - Wesley's paternalism towards Cordelia at the beginning of the episode, is linked to the other super-misogynistic attitudes he spouts later on. - Billy explaining that he hates women, but also men for being 'manipulated' by women- I like that this highlights how the Patriarchy has contempt for women and men. - Fred telling Wesley it's not in him, it was done to him. Pretending that misogyny is hardwired into men implies it's unchangeable, inevitable (& excusable) But it isn't - patriarchal conditioning is purely cultural and social. It's done to men. But it can be unlearned. - the demonstration of the twisted logic of misogyny by Wesley, which you noted, Dodo. He's looking for her with an axe, claiming he has to because she's hiding, lying, being sneaky. One of Misogyny's central tenets is that women are duplicitous, untrustworthy. Wesley thinks he's swinging his axe around because Fred's run away, hidden, lied. But really she's run away, hidden, lied because he's swinging his axe around!