Buffy's "just experimenting"

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You may remember when Willow came out on Buffy (season 4, according to the NYT). Now Buffy is following her lead...sorta. In issue 12 of the Buffy The Vampire Slayer comic book, she wakes up in bed, naked with  Satsu, another vampire slaying girl (way to hypersexualize another Japanese female).

But hey, don't get your hopes up:

But before fans start blogging frantically, they should know that Mr. Whedon is clear where this is headed. “We’re not going to make her gay, nor are we going to take the next 50 issues explaining that she’s not. She’s young and experimenting, and did I mention open-minded?”

I guess that's an interesting take on it. Though they don't know exactly how they're going to deal with Satsu -- they don't want to kill her, but if they do, she may end up as a ghost. Basically, they don't want a recurrence of what happened when Willow's gf Tara was killed, sparking a firestorm of pissed off viewers:

“It’s something you have to factor in,” Mr. Whedon said. After Tara died, he said, he discovered that “there was a whole cliché about lesbians being killed.” He added: “You do have to be careful about the message you’re sending out. It’s a double-edged sword. You have to be responsible, but you also have to be irresponsible or you’re not telling the best stories.”

Experimenting In Bed When Not With Vampires {NYT}

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