I just discovered your analyses of Firefly here (8 YEARS LATER!) but I actually HAVE started a project of my own that is/will be a collection of analyses of popular stories in fictional media. The Stories we Tell. TSWT.org please check it out. I’d LOVE for you to contribute. I only have 2 analyses up at the moment, working on my 3rd. Please email me if you are interested, and/or just want to keep contact/share resources and ideas tswt.contribute@gmail.com . Thanks for writing these pieces, I just could NOT get into this series for the very reasons you mentioned in the pilot episode, even though many of my friend love the series.

I’m only surprised I haven’t seen you mention the scene with River’s first appearance, unconscious, naked, and curled up in the fetal position. Well, granted it would be hard to mention*every* instance of anti-feminism in the show. It’s one of the most obvious scenes though, and the fact that they incorporate this scene into the opening theme makes it ten times worse.

As for Inara, I don’t even know where to begin. Even if I could get beyond the whole prostitution thing, what *really* angers me about her character is that it is so painfully obvious to me she is Joss’ vision of what is sexy in a woman-i.e. soft-spoken, never raising her voice, never losing her temper even when she really should, thin and small, always wearing revealing clothing and looking like she just stepped out of a salon. This to me is troublesome in and of itself-any man who finds any of these things attractive rather than pitiable couldn’t possibly be a feminist at all, not in any sense of the word.