Feminerdism

My sister-in-law just sent me this email:

So… I’ve been watching a lot of Buffy on Netflix over the last week or so because there isn’t anything good currently on tv. Just now I was in the living room watching a particularly creepy episode and I heard this loud cracking noise in the kitchen which was weird because I’m home alone. 

I put on my best girl power face and went to investigate. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary so I decided that maybe a neighbor kid hit the window with their Frisbee or something and went back to Buffy. 

Then about 15 minutes later I went back to the kitchen to pour myself a new glass on lemonade and found the pitcher sitting in a small pool of liquid. Upon closer inspection I discovered three long cracks in the glass running along the bottom of the pitcher from which the lemonade was slowly leaking. 

Girl power face be damned, I’m convinced I’m home alone with a lemonade poltergeist demon and I don’t have an English librarian to teach me how to fight it! 

The moral of the story: Despite all the girl power, self sufficiency, and positive self image crap that Buffy tried to teach a generation of girls all that I learned from it is that there is a demon for everything and I’m totally screwed.