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... This still may be news to the guys in the corporate boardrooms, but it's something that the teen- and - twenty- something viewers of TV shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer- tomorrow's leaders, as the saying goes- already know. Buffy, true to the WB network's unofficial mission, is a 12-step program to adolescent angst. But unlike the pink-faced longings of slutty ol' Dawson's Creek, it had a definite empowerment motif. "The first time I had to break a broom over some guy's head, I was shaking and crying," Buffy star Sarah Michelle Gellar has said. "I didn't want to do it. But now it's like, 'give me the broom. Let me hit somebody'". And Gellar's taken that in-your-face-give-me-the-broom 'tude to the big screen as well in teen horror films that self-consciously turn the tables on the traditional hero/damsel dynamic. While the boys are off searching for their inner selves and wondering why they deserve to be targeted by a serial killer, the girls are scissor-kicking evil back to hell like a rousing Andres Dworkin wet dream. Says Gellar:" It's not just a bunch of big-breasted babes running away from a slasher and getting decapitated."
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