I think that whole "men are reasonable" and "men are right" bit is cultural. It's quite likely that Joss just hasn't seen beyond his own blinders there.
I HATE when character perform spells by reading them out of texts. Really? That's how magic is supposed to work? That drives me nuts! And they do it right off the bat in the third episode with Giles performing that spell on the witch. I guess having the book there is supposed to emphasize it's a spell or ancient magic or somesuch but, no, just no.
My therapist and I laugh 'cause I'll say stuff like "I just want to get past the unpleasant part and have the relationship work again". Of course I'm joking when I say it, but it does feel like it'd be nice to skip the whole nasty part. My family is big into denial. I knew my mother's side of the family was but now I'm seeing how much denial my Dad does as well. I'd never noticed that before. Actually, no, I can think of one example from high-school but I hadn't attached any importance to it at the time. When I initially set my boundaries, this past summer, it was in an e-mail. I basically said "this is how I want it to go when you come visit." His response was to say that he wasn't going to visit and to tell me that I don't tell him anything. And that's true. I don't. Because anything I tell him could be used in a Dad-attack. So no matter how "nice" I make this next message, I don't expect him to take it all that well, but hopefully over the long-run it'll help us work things out. Never did this before so don't know how it'll go.
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I HATE when character perform spells by reading them out of texts. Really? That's how magic is supposed to work? That drives me nuts! And they do it right off the bat in the third episode with Giles performing that spell on the witch. I guess having the book there is supposed to emphasize it's a spell or ancient magic or somesuch but, no, just no.
My therapist and I laugh 'cause I'll say stuff like "I just want to get past the unpleasant part and have the relationship work again". Of course I'm joking when I say it, but it does feel like it'd be nice to skip the whole nasty part. My family is big into denial. I knew my mother's side of the family was but now I'm seeing how much denial my Dad does as well. I'd never noticed that before. Actually, no, I can think of one example from high-school but I hadn't attached any importance to it at the time. When I initially set my boundaries, this past summer, it was in an e-mail. I basically said "this is how I want it to go when you come visit." His response was to say that he wasn't going to visit and to tell me that I don't tell him anything. And that's true. I don't. Because anything I tell him could be used in a Dad-attack. So no matter how "nice" I make this next message, I don't expect him to take it all that well, but hopefully over the long-run it'll help us work things out. Never did this before so don't know how it'll go.
Thanks for all the helpful comments and advice.