I just saw that today. That person is way off the mark in her criticism of Whedon and Firefly. She seems to equate penis-vagina sex as rape regardless of consent (to her, any woman who consents to hetero sex has been pressured into man-pleasing by the patriarchy.) It made me especially sad to see her equate feminism with man-hating in her user-info. Way to create bad associations and vindicate those on the frontlines of the Culture Wars who want to make feminism connote misandry. "Witch, please!"

I am kind of a sucker for the "gratuitous Girl Power nonsense" myself, although I agree that we're in this middle stage where female empowerment is the equivalent of women adopting masculine modes of power (violence, aggression, competition.) I think that while women can and when needed should be aggressive and competitive (even violent when force must be answered by force) we have far more to offer than that as leaders in business and politics. I always bring up Starhawk's idea of "power with, not power over" in this context to try to verbalize that distinction and my goal as a feminist, particularly in relation to men.