She is fighting creatures double her size, and killing them. She is aggressive, outgoing, and determined. Words which are not "normally" used to describe women (without, of course, the word "bitch" trailing right behind them). In other cultures, women being the more aggressive and "take-charge" kind of person is the "norm", but because we are living in a society, a culture, where even with the whole women's suffrage being long passed, many people would still like to see women behave as dainty, quiet, and passive characters...
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Buffy, The Vampire Slayer has taken the issue of "normal gender roles and behavior" and switched them around, allowing the women to be more aggressive, having most of the power and ability, while the men take on the more passive role, watching from the "sidelines", or at least simply trying to help. Although, at times, the stereotypical views of how a woman and a man should act, usually in interaction with each other, plays a role within the episodes...
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