Random thoughts 3: William/Spike and his mother

[candleanfeather]

It's been a very long time since my last post here, but here it is: a new addition to my series of random thoughts about BTVS

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[shapinglight]

:blinks:

How utterly bizarre. I've just posted something on the exact same thing in which I've drawn very similar conclusions.

[boot_the_grime]

First a confession; this one is not so random. These thoughts occured to me after reading some exchanges about Spike and his mother that took a very simplistic view of their relationship which goes along these lines: William had an unhealthy relationship with his mother who loved him but felt in her heart deeply frustrated to be housebound. This view more or less puts the responsability of the dysfonction on William's shoulder. Though I agree with some points in this, I also think it misses the complexity of the whole picture.I don't think anyone has put the responsibility for Anne's situation on William's shoulders. Anne was housebound because she was a Victorian lady. She couldn't have had a job or a life outside the home even if she wanted to. The point that was being made is that it's extremely unfair - and sexist - to compare Anne with someone like Nikki Wood who had an incredibly important job that only she was qualified to do, and to claim that Nikki "didn't love her son enough" because she wasn't spending as much time with him