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Buffy

So what I’m wondering is: does this always happen? Sleep with a guy and he goes all evil?

— Buffy the Vampire Slayer • 1997

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker asks whether sleeping with a man is always followed by his becoming evil. The exaggerated question turns an alarming change into a possible rule of intimacy. Its dry phrasing combines frustration with disbelief, without establishing how often the speaker has experienced anything similar.

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