![]() But I knew there was something happening between Sarah Michelle Gellar's Buffy and her counterpart, something that no one would say out loud. I was in sixth grade, and I didn't know I was bisexual yet, although I'm far from the only girl to have had her first glimmerings of queer awareness as a direct response to Eliza Dushku. The self-immolating allure of queer desire hadn't occurred to me in 1998, when Eliza Dushku joined the cast of Buffy the Vampire Slayer as the impulsive, irrepressible new Slayer, Faith. And if loving girls is inherently dangerous, why not love dangerous girls? If being queer puts you in mortal peril, then the object of queer desire is both an unattainable dream and an implement of self-harm. "Destruction" might mean death, madness, or just really good Sapphic sex - all were equally devastating to white middle-class heterosexual femininity. In 1950s lesbian pulp novels, femmes fatales lure innocent girls to their destruction. Literature has regularly blurred the lines between "girls who want to kill other girls" and "girls who want to f- other girls," dating back at least as far as Carmilla (1872). Me: omg ellen you didn't- zoe March 7, 2019 Ellen: so i heard you wanted *takes out list* charlize theron, cate blanchett, rachel weisz, sarah paulson, lena headey and rebecca ferguson to murder you ![]()
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