Spiritual Warfare response

The first line in "Spiritual Warfare" that ironically caught my attention was "thus the female gaze has come to be associated with witchlike female monstrosity and female power simultaneously." Generally in my experience I have found this to be true; in films and television shows, the episodes where the hot new female character sensually gazes at whichever male character usually results in some sort of mind control afterward, or at least some time of "you'll do this for me, right?" For instance, in an early episode of Gilligan's Island, Ginger (the movie star) wanted Gilligan to build her a hut, since they had just recently been marooned on the island. However, Gilligan and the men currently possessed the tools, so Ginger used her sex appeal and heavy gaze at Gilligan to make Gilligan willingly surrender all of the tools and offer his assistance.

Second, when discussing how '90s witchcraft came to be associated with lesbianism with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the article noted that "even Sabrina’s aunts were configured as lesbian parents, despite occasional dates and boyfriends, note Sarah Projansky and Leah Vande Berg." That...is something I had never thought of before. While watching the show (and this could have just been my age at the time also being a factor), I never thought of Aunts Hilda and Zelda as trying to represent a lesbian couple. Yes, each was independent and hardly needed a man's help in solving an issue, but I guess the fact that both wanted to raise Sabrina without a stable father influence would have seemed odd for some. I wonder though, if that is what the creators of the show were going for when they started the series. On some further research though, I now know that the Sabrina series was originally a 1960s comic strip in the Archie comics, but was 'reinvented' for TV in the 90s sitcom. Another interesting little factoid is that the Sabrina movie and sitcom came out in 1996, while The Blair Witch project aired in 1999. Thus, Sabrian slightly predated "the sisterhood" that came to be in the late 90s as witchcraft came in style again.

I found the analysis of the character Heather and the two men she was filming with quite interesting, although a bit confusing since I have not seen the film The Blair Witch Project. Regardless, it made enough sense for me to understand the power strugle and what this represented in regards to the article (the female taking control of power in a usually male dominated realm and the 'consequences' that come with it, etc.)