Sort of all around fail
mood: 
irate
irateSpoilers within, but they're warned for before they're reached.
I was remembering Nalini Singh's novella in her Angel's Blood series, one about Ashwini and the vampire she hunts on and off. In this, the angel--who is pretty much a carbon copy of Raphael--is treated the way a sane person would treat them. She's creeped out by his come-on, spooked, and hopes to interact with him as little as possible. At the time I didn't put much thought into it, but the only difference I can really come up with between the angel and archangel is that one--the one acknowledged as negative--is black.
Mm. Well.
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Also, the "and his wife!" line was a nod to the previously linked-to wank--really, my pointing out how things tend to spiral out of control and into the realm of complete fucking ridiculousness that no sane person takes seriously once people start getting foamed up over their judgments.
I wouldn't venture to say 'Joss Whedon hates women' because I don't know the man, and don't want to. And she didn't say that. But someone who is willing to create something like that I am horrified by. Certainly I am a big fan of Zoe and River and Inara, but good portrayals of women previously do not negate the fact that he made a show that contains an obscene amount of text--not even subtext--about how sympathetic people who violate, denigrate and sell women (and men) are.