Nah, I'm actually not assuming that - it's been pretty clear for some time that romance is the stuff that cause hives for him, considering how often such things were only used as setup for the inevitable misery to follow. And the misery-wallowing was kind of a tip-off too, not to mention the main reason I couldn't make myself even try to give Dollhouse a chance - that story was explicitly designed to make a female protagonist suffer for the audience's amusement. But it grates me to see JW held up as feminist just for having created Buffy in the first place, and making pro-woman statements in interviews, donating to charities, whatever, and yet, there's his work, saying something else altogether.