“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” Is Actually The Worst, And Here All The Reasons Why

The fact that Willow’s sexuality swung from one end of the spectrum to the other

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Look, we love Willow. And we love that Willow’s character served to open up conversation about sexuality in the late ‘90s. But we don’t love the fact that she was written as heterosexual for the first few seasons (lest we forget both Xander and Oz) before she became the poster child for college lesbianism. There is an entire spectrum of sexuality, and Willow could have just as easily been portrayed as bi (which she very clearly was).

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