I didn’t notice it at the time, of course, for I was just 8, but my first meaningful encounter with feminism was Maid Marian and Her Merry Men. ![]() With this brilliantly bolshie album, Morissette taught me that women were allowed to be angry (although of course she really confused me about the precise meaning of irony).īut then I realised it was much, much earlier than that. Then it occurred to me that it was probably earlier than that, when I was 14 and obsessed with Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill. There’s no doubting Buffy’s feminist credentials: teenage girl is bestowed with a duty she really doesn’t want but can’t escape, and so has to save the world while managing all of the other crap that comes with being a teenager - including her boyfriend turning into a soulless monster the moment she sleeps with him. ![]() ![]() Hitherto, I’d been inclined to think my first brush with feminism was Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which I watched religiously from the age of 16.
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