To me, a story can be feminist in a variety of ways. The most important being how it treats its female characters: are they as nuanced, and dynamic as the male characters? Do they get good lines? Are they flawed? Are they, in short, like a real person and not a collection of easy feminine stereotypes? That’s a good place to start. It’s equally important to me that a feminist story tackle real concerns about gender and equality in a way that legitimately attempts to explore it for the complex issue it is. Which may seem like a tall order for, say, a show about vampires, but the best genre fiction has that element, exploring serious “real” issues through a fantastical lens. It helps us remove ourselves a little and see them in a different context
Mariah Huehner, “Imperfectly Perfect: Why I really Love Buffy for Being a Pill Sometimes” in Whedonistas! A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon by the Women Who Love Them

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    This is why I love Joss Whedon’s shows and characters. He acknowledges and tries to change that bitches have privilege....
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    “Why do you write these strong female characters? Because you’re still asking me that question.”
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    Whedon isn’t a massive feminist, but Buffy is better than a lot of shit. And this is an a-grade quote.
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