I think Joss misread the audience on this one. I don't think I'm being puritanical about it, but it's a vastly weird response for her. It's just too much of a departure for not just Buffy, but any sane woman, no matter how lonely.

Word.

I don't really care about Angel, period

Wordy McWordison.

am flogging a poor, dying horse.

Was the horse perhaps dark? Because methinks a little flogging might be necessary to get the horse to stop thinking out of its ass (and I so did not just endorse animal abuse via obscure metaphor, did I?)

He's got a tough row to hoe to make us believe in a Buffy that can be relied upon to make good choices

(This is one I just saw and liked on Whedonesque) I've got so much word for you I'm holding both a Webster's and an Oxford dictionary!

Okay, done now.