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Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a show about “one girl in all the world” chosen to fight the vampires, demons and the forces of darkness. In a show with a female hero, “traditional masculinity” is often represented symbolically through the supernatural. In this paper, I give a gendered reading of the vampires Angel, Spike, and Willow to examine vampirism as masculinity through sexuality, gender performance and essentialism. Several critics seem to assume Buffy exclusively explores femininity through the images of strong female characters, I contend however that masculinity is explored symbolically via vampirism through images of sex, gender roles and sexuality.
