Hmm... see to me there are two problems with that interpretation: 1) Spike was definitely not all that chivalrous or respectful towards Buffy when they got together 2) Courtly love has a lot of skeevy sexist undertones anyway :)
But I have Issues with a lot of old fashioned romance ideas like courtly love, chivalry etc, possibly a result of attracting the kinds of guy who believe in that sort of thing and thus seeing what it really leads to (I love you => I own you, I see you as an ideal => If you contradict my idealised picture of you I will despise you, etc)
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1) Spike was definitely not all that chivalrous or respectful towards Buffy when they got together
2) Courtly love has a lot of skeevy sexist undertones anyway :)
But I have Issues with a lot of old fashioned romance ideas like courtly love, chivalry etc, possibly a result of attracting the kinds of guy who believe in that sort of thing and thus seeing what it really leads to (I love you => I own you, I see you as an ideal => If you contradict my idealised picture of you I will despise you, etc)